“This cowardly crime will not go unanswered. » It is with these words that President Ebrahim Raïssi described the strike attributed to Israel on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria. Among the 13 victims, seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior military officer in the Quds Force.
If Israel's air raids in Syria are not new, this one, which the Jewish state has not claimed, would be the first to hit a diplomatic building. Behind this operation, it was above all the mysterious Quds force which was targeted. Operating primarily in the Middle East to defend Iranian interests, this elite group is a vocal adversary of Israel.
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