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Eugene

(62,623 posts) Mon Apr 1, 2024, 05:07 PM Apr 2024

Israel bombs Iran embassy in Syria, Iranian commanders among dead

Source: Reuters

Israel bombs Iran embassy in Syria, Iranian commanders among dead

Reuters
Updated Mon, April 1, 2024 at 4:54 PM EDT·3 min read

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

The Syrian foreign minister and interior minister were both spotted at the scene. "We strongly condemn this atrocious terrorist attack that targeted the Iranian consulate building in Damascus and killed a number of innocents," Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said.

Israel has long targeted Iran's military installations in Syria and those of its proxies, and has ramped up those strikes in parallel with its campaign against Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/building-close-iranian-embassy-hit-145858590.html

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Israel bombs Iran embassy in Syria, Iranian commanders among dead (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2024 OP

I can't see a good ending here Easterncedar Apr 2024 #1

Iran vows revenge after two generals killed in Israeli strike on Syria consulate Eugene Apr 2024 #2

Holy sh_t. Warmonger Netanyahu has expanded this conflict to a regional war. brush Apr 2024 #3

Really Bad Tbear Apr 2024 #4

Easterncedar

(3,331 posts)

1. I can't see a good ending here

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2024, 05:17 PM

Apr 2024

Eugene

(62,623 posts)

2. Iran vows revenge after two generals killed in Israeli strike on Syria consulate

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2024, 05:43 PM

Apr 2024

Iran vows revenge after two generals killed in Israeli strike on Syria consulate (The Guardian)

Iran has vowed revenge after Israeli war planes destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing at least 11 people, including a senior commander in the al-Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

Iran’s leaders in Tehran described the targeting of a diplomatic mission late on Monday as unprecedented and promised a harsh response.

Iran said that several long-serving diplomats were killed alongside Brig Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Zahedi’s deputy, Gen Haji Rahimi. It was also reported that Brig Gen Hossein Amirollah, the chief of general staff for the al-Quds force in Syria and Lebanon, was among the victims.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 people were killed in the attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/israeli-airstrike-on-iranian-consulate-in-damascus-kills-irgc-commander

brush

(57,086 posts)

3. Holy sh_t. Warmonger Netanyahu has expanded this conflict to a regional war.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2024, 05:48 PM

Apr 2024

He's out of fucking control. Attacking a consulate of another country, in another country. WTF?

Iran will of course respond, as may Syria.

The US can't continue to support Israel until Netanyahu is gone.

Tbear

(500 posts)

4. Really Bad

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Mon Apr 1, 2024, 10:37 PM

Apr 2024

Even if the Israeli's "blew up" a new attack before it could happen?
Who knows what is really going on.

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