Iran’s Raisi: ‘Cowardly’ attack on embassy in Damascus will not go unanswered

By AFP and ToI Staff 2 April 2024, 10:10 am

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File: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi waves to the crowd during the funeral ceremony of the victims of a bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Vahid Salemi)

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.