Iran condemns an airstrike on a Syrian air base that killed four Iranians, including a Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps colonel.
The Syrian government blamed Monday’s pre-dawn strike on Israel, which does not typically comment on its operations in Syria. A war monitoring group said the strike killed a total of 14 people.
State-run TV quotes Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying the attack was a “violation of national sovereignty and the territorial integrity of this country, and contrary to all international rules and regulations.”
The official IRAN daily says Col. Mehdi Dehghan, a member of the IRGC’s aerospace force, was killed in the attack. The semi-official Fars news agency previously reported that three other Iranians were among those killed, without giving their ranks.
Iran is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has sent troops to bolster his forces. Iran insists its soldiers are only in Syria in an advisory role, but hundreds have been killed since the civil war began in 2011.
— AP
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