Iran has vowed to avenge the deaths of several high-ranking officers of the Quds Force, the elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards. They died in an airstrike which, according to Tehran, hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, on Monday April 1.
Israel has not officially acknowledged being the author of this targeted assassination, but the New York Times assured Tuesday that it had confirmation from four Israeli officials. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, aged 63 at the time of his assassination, joined the IRGC in 1981, just two years after the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran.