Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘Israel will be punished’ for Syria strike on embassy
- The strike on the Iranian embassy annex in Damascus killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including two commanders of its Quds Force foreign operations arm
- Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already inflamed by the war in Gaza between Israel and Iran ally Hamas
Iran warned arch foe Israel on Tuesday that it will punish an air strike that killed at least 13 people, including seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, at its consular annex in Damascus.
Monday’s strike levelled the five-storey building near the Iranian embassy and further stoked tensions already running high as the Gaza war nears the end of its sixth month.
Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already inflamed by the war in Gaza between Israel and Iran ally Hamas.
The evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed that Israel would be punished.
“The evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones,” Khamenei said in a message published on his official website.
President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the attack as a “clear violation of international regulations” which “will not go unanswered”.
“After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” Raisi said on his office’s website.
