The US government announced yesterday Tuesday that the airstrike against its embassy compound Iran in Damascus, the capital of Syria, was made by Israel.
“The US did not raid Damascus. I would refer you to the Israelis for questions about their strike,” the US Pentagon deputy spokeswoman said during a briefing of accredited editors, when asked if Washington was involved.
Asked if this is the US government’s official assessment that it was an Israeli operation, deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Sigg confirmed: “That is our assessment.”
Ms Sig also said we had “made it clear” to Iran “that we were not responsible” for the Damascus airstrike and insisted: “I want to reiterate that the US had no involvement” or “prior knowledge” of it. the raid.
In yesterday’s bombing that destroyed the consular section of the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, a total of thirteen people were killed, among them two senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards, an elite body of the Islamic Republic’s army.
Tehran strongly condemned the attack and threatened Israel with retaliation.
A spokesman for the Israeli army, when asked about it, gave the standard answer that he does not comment on foreign media reports.
Source: RES-MPE
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