China News Service, January 21. According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the 21st, Iranian President Raisi issued a statement on the official presidential website saying that Israel’s air strike on the Syrian capital caused the death of five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Israel should respond accordingly. responsible for the attack, Iran “will not sit idly by”.
According to reports, on the 20th local time, Israel launched an air strike on Damascus, Syria, killing at least 10 people, five of whom were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran later stated that it “reserves the right to respond.”
Leahy expressed his condolences to the families of the "senior martyrs" and vowed to avenge their deaths, the statement said.
Leahy called the attack "a cowardly assassination of five of Iran's most prominent advisers" and "terrorism and crime" that "shows (Israel's) desperation and weakness in the face of resistance fighters... We cannot I’m going to sit back and ignore it.”
Image source: Screenshot from BBC report
According to previous Syrian media reports, on the 20th, Israel airstriked a multi-story residential building in the Maizai area in western Damascus, killing many people, including many Iranian consultants.
Several witnesses said the residential building was hit by several missiles.
Sources close to the Iraqi-Syrian government said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had a military adviser’s office in the residential building that was attacked on the 20th, and Iranian personnel were meeting there at the time of the incident.
Agence France-Presse stated that the dead were the intelligence chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria and three other members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Currently, Israel has not responded to this.
According to reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is an important military, political and economic force in Iran.
Senior generals of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been stationed in Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
For more than a decade, Israel has been bombing Syrian military positions and Iran-related targets in Syria. The attack on Syria on the 20th once again aggravated the tense situation in the Middle East.