Iran’s FM heads to Damascus a week after strike killed 7 Revolutionary Guard commanders there

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is on his way to visit Syria’s capital Damascus, state media reports, a week after a strike blamed on Israel killed seven of its Revolutionary Guards commanders in a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy.

Iran has vowed to avenge the deaths, with a senior adviser to the supreme leader saying on Sunday that Israeli embassies were no longer safe.

Amirabdollahian started a regional tour yesterday in Muscat, where he met Omani officials and a representative of Yemen’s Houthis Mohamed Abdelsalam, who said the Iranian-backed militant group would continue to target Israel-bound ships until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza.

“The attack on Iran’s embassy building in Damascus is a new step in Israel’s warmongering and its attempt to expand war regionally,” Amirabdollahian said while in Oman.