Eight people, including a senior Revolutionary Guards commander, were killed by an Israeli strike in a suburb of Damascus, Iranian and Syrian media reported, as well as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Syrian news agency SANA reported that the Iranian consulate in Syria was destroyed by the strike. “Israeli strikes targeted a building in the Mazeh district of Damascus,” an area that houses many embassies and the United Nations offices, the agency reported. An AFP correspondent at the scene said the building next to the Iranian embassy was completely destroyed. Security sources said that among the dead is Reza Zahendi, a leading member of the Revolutionary Guards. According to the Iranian news website Nournews, Iran's ambassador Hossein Akbari and his family were not injured. The Observatory spoke of a total of eight dead from Israeli rockets that destroyed “an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus”, while the Iranian agency […]
Source: News Beast
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