Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement late Monday that two commanders and five of its officers were killed in a strike in Damascus close to the Iranian consulate.
Mohammad Reza Zahedi
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement late Monday that two commanders and five of its officers were killed in a strike in Damascus close to the Iranian consulate.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Iranian Quds Force commander in Syria and Lebanon, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was killed alongside his deputy, Haji Rahimi.
In addition, Hussein Amir Allah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Chief of Staff in Syria and Lebanon, was killed, along with two other Iranians.
Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, Syria's newly appointed Foreign Minister, has publicly acknowledged Israel's existence as an "undeniable reality" and suggested that Syria may be open to future negotiations under certain conditions.
Italy's foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala, who was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19 while working under a regular journalistic visa.
Israeli prosecutors indicted on Thursday Alexander Granovsky, a 29-year-old resident of Petah Tikva, on charges of espionage and national security offenses for allegedly collaborating with Iranian operatives.
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