Strikes in Damascus: no Israeli embassy is “safe”, Iran warns. Revolutionary Guards General Yahya Rahim Safavi, quoted by the local ISNA agency.
Tehran vowed to retaliate for Monday's destruction by airstrikes blamed on Israel of the consular annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. The total death toll from the raid was 16, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday that Israel would be "slapped" for the attack.