Iran on Saturday blamed Israel for a strike on Damascus, saying it “reserves the correct to reply” after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed 4 of its members had died.
Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani decried “frequent violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and an escalation in aggressive and provocative assaults” by Tehran’s arch-foe Israel.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the correct to reply… on the acceptable time and place” to the newest strike on the Syrian capital, Kanani mentioned.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights battle monitor mentioned 10 individuals had been killed within the Israeli strike on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus.
The Guards’ Sepah information company mentioned the “evil and legal Zionist regime (Israel)” killed 4 of its army advisers, whereas Iran’s Mehr information company reported one in all them was the drive’s spy chief for Syria.
In current weeks, Israel has been accused of intensifying strikes on senior Iranian and allied figures in Syria and Lebanon — backers of the Palestinian militant group Hamas — elevating fears the Gaza battle might broaden additional all through the area.
Military actions throughout the area attributed to Israel “mirror the weak spot and desperation” of its forces on the battlefield, Kanani charged.
He referred to as the newest strike “a determined try and unfold instability and insecurity within the area”.
The raid on Mazzeh got here 4 days after the Revolutionary Guard mentioned it attacked “an Israeli intelligence headquarters” in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s northern autonomous province of Kurdistan.