Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday condemned Israel\u2019s attack on his country\u2019s consular annex in Damascus, saying the \u201ccowardly crime will not go unanswered\u201d. \u201cAfter repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,\u201d Raisi said on his office\u2019s website. Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy\u2019s consular annex in Damascus on Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed. Israel said it would not comment on the attack, but Iranian officials vowed a stiff response, with fears of even further violence between Israel and Iran\u2019s allies amid the Gaza war. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and another high-ranking officer, Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as among seven of its members killed. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 people, including several Guards members, were killed when \u201cIsraeli missiles\u2026 destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy\u201d. The toll includes \u201ceight Iranians, two Syrians and one Lebanese \u2014 all of them fighters, none of them civilians,\u201d Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory with a network of sources in Syria, told media. Iran\u2019s ambassador to Syria, Hossein Akbari, told Iranian state TV that the attack \u201cwas carried out by F-35 fighter jets\u201d that fired six missiles at the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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