Israel’s missile attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria, 6 people including the leader of the Revolutionary Guards were martyred

6 people, including the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, were martyred in a missile attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria by Israel. Among those martyred is Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

According to the news of the foreign news agency “Reuters”, Israel targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the capital of Syria, as a result of which its building was destroyed.

Syrian and Iranian media confirmed the attack on the consulate.

Among the dead was Mohammad Reza Zahidi, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Lebanese security sources told Reuters.

Iran’s state television said that several Iranian diplomats were killed in the Israeli strike.

A Reuters correspondent at the scene in the Syrian capital’s Meze district saw smoke billowing from the rubble of the consulate building as emergency vehicles parked in front of the collapsed building and an Iranian flag flying on a pole in front of the wreckage. was

Both the Syrian Interior and Foreign Ministers visited the site.

Israel, which has repeatedly targeted Iranian targets during the six-month war in Gaza, refused to react to the incident as usual.

The spokesperson of the Israeli army said that we do not comment on reports in foreign media.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that five people were killed in the Israeli strike, while Syria’s state-run SANA news agency did not give the number of dead or wounded.

Since the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel, Israel has stepped up airstrikes against Hezbollah and the Iranian Guard in Syria and Lebanon, both forces that support the government of President Bashar al-Assad.