Damascus strikes: No Israeli embassy is ‘safe’, Iran warns

The military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned this Sunday that no Israeli embassy is “safe” after the death of seven Iranian soldiers in a raid, blamed on Israel, on an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus.

“No Israeli embassy is any more secure,” said Revolutionary Guard General Yahya Rahim Safavi, as quoted by local news agency ISNA.

Promise of an answer

Tehran has vowed to retaliate for Monday’s destruction of the consular annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, in airstrikes blamed on Israel that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, including two senior officials. ranking officers. The total death toll from the raid was 16, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Yahya Rahim Safavi confirmed that due to Iranian threats, Israel “until yesterday closed 27 embassies out of fear,” including “in Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and Turkey,” information not confirmed by other sources. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday that Israel would receive a “slap on the wrist” for the attack.

Iranian officials have given no indication of when or where they will respond as many countries fear heightened tensions in the Middle East six months after war broke out between Israel and Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip.