An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader warned on Sunday that Israeli embassies are no longer safe following the attack on a consular building in Syria in which prominent members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard were killed.
“The Zionist regime’s embassies are no longer safe,” said Yahya Rahim Safavi, an advisor to Ayataollah Ali Khamenei, quoted by the ISNA news agency.
Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday’s airstrike on Damascus that destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex, killing seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals.
“The resistance front is ready; what (the answer) will be like, we have to wait,” said Safavi, noting that “confronting this brutal regime is a legal and legitimate right.”
He also noted that several Israeli embassies in the region “have been closed.”
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Monday’s attack, which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights killed 16 people, was the fifth attack on Syria in a week attributed to Israel.
Among the dead were Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, senior commanders of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the IRGC.
Reports say that Iranian generals participated in a meeting with members of Palestinian Jihad
2024-04-07 15:52:32