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Iran media confirms 2 high ranking Guards Corps officers among dead in Damascus strike

People and rescuers gather in front of a building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus on January 20, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
Two high-ranking Iranian military advisers were killed in an alleged Israeli strike on the Syrian capital Damascus, Iranian media outlets report.
“Two high-ranking Iranian advisers were martyred in today’s attack by the Zionist regime [Israel] in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus,” Iran’s Mehr news agency says, quoting an informed but unnamed source.
State-run Press TV reports the same information, adding the two were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.