Iran has vowed to respond to Saturday’s missile attack in Damascus, Syria, which killed five officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for which it blames Israel.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said in a statement published on his office’s website that the killing was “a terrorist act” through “a flagrant violation of Syrian airspace,” adding that Israel’s attacks “will not go unanswered by Iran.” “.
Earlier on Saturday, the Revolutionary Guards said five of its members serving as military advisers in Syria, as well as several Syrian forces and civilians, were killed in an Israeli missile strike in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus.
Iran has made it known that it has an advisory role in Syria, with its advisers working at the invitation of official Damascus.
The Syrian government said in a statement that Israeli forces carried out an aerial attack on the occupied Golan Heights, firing rockets into a residential area, completely destroying one building and damaging several others.
The latest attack is part of a continuing escalation in tensions between Iran and Israel, which have raised fears of a wider regional conflict.