Monday's deadly raid in Damascus, blamed on Israel, risks changing the nature of the confrontation between the Jewish state and Iran. From a shadow war with relatively defined contours on Syrian soil, we moved on to an unprecedented attack against Iranian diplomatic installations. And never have the targets eliminated in Syria been so important for Tehran.
Monday, around 5:45 p.m. (Paris time), six missiles fired, according to Tehran, by F-35 fighters completely destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus in the residential district of Mazzé. If, for more than ten years, Israel has regularly attacked Iranian arms convoys or Tehran security officials in Syria, for the first time, the target is a diplomatic building of Iran, an ally of Syria, where Tehran has strengthened its positions in relation to Russia, another supporter of Damascus, occupied in its war in Ukraine.
A dazzling failure for Tehran
The strikes killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the highest ranking member of the Revolutionary Guards...
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