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Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. only on Monday with life This was reported by three Iranian security sources and state media. Sources told

Israel kills senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official

Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. only on Monday with life This was reported by three Iranian security sources and state media.

Sources told Reuters that the adviser, known as Syed Razi Mousaviwas responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran.

“I will not comment on foreign reports, one way or another, in the Middle East,” IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in response to a journalist’s question at an evening press conference. “It is clear that the Israeli military is called upon to protect Israel’s security interests.”

Iranian state television interrupted its regular news to announce the death. Mousavi, whom he described as one of the Guard’s most senior advisers in Syria. In accordance with Indian, was “one of Qasem Soleimani’s associates”head of the Guard’s elite Quds Force who died in the attack from a drone An American in Iraq in 2020.

Iran’s ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, told Iranian state television that Mousavi was appointed as a diplomat and was killed by Israeli missiles after returning home from work.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Mousavi’s death shows Israel’s weakness. “This act is a sign of the disappointment and weakness of the Zionist regime in the region, for which it will undoubtedly pay a price,” Iranian media quoted Raisi as saying.

The Revolutionary Guards said Israel would pay for the killing of Mousavi, who had the rank of brigadier general. “Without a doubt, the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” the Guard said in a statement read on state television.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told state media that “Iran reserves the right to take necessary measures in response to this action at an appropriate time and place.”

For its part, Palestinian group Islamic Jihad condemned Mousavi’s death as a “cowardly act,” saying he had played a vital role in supporting the resistance in the region, as well as the Palestinian people and their cause.

Israel carry years attacking what has describe as targets linked to Iran in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it backed President Bashar al-Assad in a war that broke out in 2011.

Earlier this month, Iran said an Israeli strike killed two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stationed in Syria.

Iran has sent hundreds of guards as “advisers” to help train and organize thousands of Shiite fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to support the government in the Syrian conflict. Lebanese Hezbollah fighters also work closely with Iranian military commanders in Syria.

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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