Israel will stoke tensions after an air strike on Tehran’s consulate in a neighbouring country killed eight including a senior Iranian commander.
Israel hit an Iranian consulate annex in Damascus, it’s been claimed. There was no immediate comment from Tel Aviv. AFP correspondents at the scene confirmed the building next to the embassy, an annex, had been levelled, in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus.Iranian media also reported that the strikes in Damascus completely destroyed the annex building, and that the ambassador was unharmed.
Britain-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “Israeli missiles … destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy … in Damascus, killing six people”, in an initial toll it quickly raised to eight. SANA earlier reported that “our air defence systems confronted enemy targets in the vicinity of Damascus”.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran, Israel’s arch enemy. Hezbollah and Israeli forces have exchanged near-daily fire along the Lebanese border.
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