Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi condemns Israel for allegedly being behind the attack on his country’s consular annex in Damascus, Syria, yesterday, saying the “cowardly crime will not go unanswered.”
“After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” Raisi says on his office’s website.
Seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the top Iranian commander in Syria, were killed in the strike on the building next to Iran’s Damascus embassy.
Though Israel has not commented on the strike, The New York Times cited four unnamed Israeli officials as confirming the country was behind the attack.
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