Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian inaugurates the country’s new consulate in Damascus on Monday, a week after a deadly strike blamed on Israel destroyed the former premises, sending regional tensions skyrocketing.
Tehran, a key ally of the Syrian government, has vowed to avenge last Monday’s airstrike on the Iranian embassy’s consular section that killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members, including two generals.
Both Damascus and Tehran blame Israel for last Monday’s raid, but Israel has not commented on the matter.
Amir-Abdollahian inaugurated the new consular section in a Damascus building in the presence of his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad, whom he also met with earlier today, state news agency SANA says/
An AFP correspondent at the inauguration says the new consulate is not far from the premises destroyed by the strike in the upscale Mazzeh area, which also houses other foreign embassies and UN offices.
Abdollahian is also set to meet President Bashar Assad, and Syria’s pro-government newspaper Al-Watan says his talks in Damascus will be “mainly focused” on repercussions of last week’s strike.
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