News - Israeli attack on Syria kills high-ranking Iranian military officer

The consular section of Iran's embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, came under Israeli rocket fire on Monday, Irna wrote. SANA reported that Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the Israeli missiles. Unconfirmed reports said at least eight people were killed in the Israeli airstrikes. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad visited the Iranian embassy after the missile strike and condemned Israel's crimes in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Hosein Amirabdollahian. Local sources added that members of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus, including the ambassador and his family, were not injured. General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria and Lebanon, was killed in the Israeli attack, Mehr News Agency reports.