Polyphemus wrote on Apr 3
rd, 2024 at 3:04pm:
Israeli F-35 fighter jets conducted air raid on the Iranian consulate building in Syria
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say seven officers have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria’s capital, Damascus.
Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy, were named among the dead.
Iran and Syria’s governments condemned the attack, which destroyed a building next door to the Iranian embassy.
Syria’s defence ministry said Israeli aircraft targeted the Iranian consulate building, which was on a highway in the western Mezzeh district of Damascus, from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at about 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Monday.
Syrian air defences shot down some of the missiles they launched, but others made it through and “destroyed the entire building, killing and injuring everyone inside”, the ministry added.
The Iranian ambassador, Hossein Akbari, said Israeli F-35 fighter jets “brutally targeted my place of residence and the consular section of the embassy, along with Iran’s military attaches”.
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Iran is threatening retaliation.
Could this act be the trigger to a wider Middle Eastern conflict or worse?
The standards with journalism have declined they're more like activists than reporters.
Israel did not bomb the Iranian embassy they hit the building next door to it. Apart from a bit of dust the embassy is undamaged and functioning.
I call bullshit on Syria shooting down anything the Russian air defences are crap they can't stop the F35 which has been flying over Syria at will.
Iran is likely to bomb the Kurds in Erbil Iraq and claim they're mossad agents. They might get Hezbollah to fire more rockets from lebanon.
Yemen might fire at more commercial ships they don't have much luck with that.
None of the Sunni Gulf states are going to back Iran in any war the Sunnis hate the Shia in Iran. The Gulf Arabs would be happy for Israel and the US to take out the shia rulers in Iran.