The adviser to Iran’s supreme leader cautioned that Israeli embassies are now considered unsafe following a strike in Syria, which Iran attributed to Israel and resulted in the deaths of seven Revolutionary Guards members.
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Tehran has pledged to retaliate for the airstrike in Damascus that targeted the Iranian embassy’s consular annex, claiming the lives of seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals.
Safavi emphasized that the resistance front is prepared, but the specific nature of the response remains uncertain. He asserted that opposing this harsh regime is a legitimate and lawful right.
He also noted that multiple Israeli embassies around the region “have been shuttered”.
Monday’s attack, which Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said killed 16 people, was the fifth raid on Syria in a week blamed on Israel.
Among the dead were generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi who were senior commanders in the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm.
Zahedi, 63, had held several commands during a career spanning more than 40 years.
He was the most senior Iranian soldier killed since a United States missile strike at Baghdad airport in 2020 killed Quds Force chief General Qasem Soleimani.
Monday’s strike in Damascus took place against the backdrop of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which began with Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel which killed 1,170 people, according to Israeli officials.
Tehran backs Hamas but has denied any direct involvement in the attack which sparked massive Israeli retaliation against the Gaza Strip.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, at least 33,175 people have been killed during six months of bombardment.
Iran does not recognise Israel, and the two countries have fought a shadow war for years.
The Islamic republic accuses Israel of having carried out a wave of sabotage attacks and assassinations targeting its nuclear programme.
meanwhile Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that Israel has completed its preparations to respond to any possible scenario against Iran days after Iran’s consular building in Damascus had been subjected to a bombing.
This came in light of Israeli preparedness for Iran’s response to the assassination of several Revolutionary Guard officials in Damascus, according to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
“The defence system has finished preparations for a response against any scenario that may develop with Iran,” said Gallant at an assessment conducted at the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.