Two brigadier generals and five members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the attack on the consular section in the Syrian capital Damascus. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi strongly condemned the suspected Israeli airstrike.
Experts have already expressed concern that some in Iran could see the attack as a declaration of war. Iran is calling for an emergency meeting of the Security Council on the incident. Hamas called on the UN Security Council to condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli “terrorist attack”