“Day after day, we witness the strengthening of the front of resistance and the repulsion and hatred of free nations against the illegitimate nature” of Israel “and This cowardly crime will not go unanswered“, added the Iranian president in a statement.
Tehran has vowed to retaliate for this unprecedented attack on an Iranian diplomatic building in Syria, where Iran and its allies support the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Ebrahim Raisi condemned an “inhumane, aggressive and despicable act of invasion that constitutes a flagrant violation of international rules.”
For Raissi, Israel “inscribed indiscriminate killings on its agenda” after having suffered “repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the fighters of the Resistance Front”, but “he must know that he will never be able to achieve his sinister objectives with such inhumane means”.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the attack, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of its Quds Force, which is an elite espionage and paramilitary arm.
“The Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus,” the Syrian Defense Ministry said.
The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Faisal Mekdad, who was at the scene together with the Minister of the Interior, “vehemently condemned this atrocious terrorist attack that targeted the Iranian consulate building in Damascus and killed an innocent person”.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian summoned Switzerland’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran, who represents United States interests in the country.Iran’s ambassador to Syria revealed that the attack hit a consular building in the embassy complex and that his residence was on the top two floors.
“An important message was sent to the US government, as it supports the Zionist entity [expressão usada para Israel]. America must assume its responsibilities”, stressed the minister, quoted by the Iranian news agency IRNA, also calling on “the international community” to give “a serious response” to the Israeli attacks.
O UN Security Council will meet this Monday to discuss the attackrevealed the Russian ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, a request already accepted, wrote the diplomat on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Israel has long targeted Iran’s military installations in Syria and those of its proxies, but Monday’s attack was the first time Israel had struck the vast embassy complex.
Asked Monday night about the attack during a press conference, Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari responded that he “does not comment on information from the foreign press.”
Israel intensified these attacks in parallel with the campaign against the radical Hamas movement, supported by Iran, which triggered the Gaza war with an attack on Israel on October 7, which killed around 1,200 people and took 253 hostages, according to the Israeli data.
Since the beginning of October, the Israel Defense Forces have intensified airstrikes in Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. .
