Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday, in response to a question about an Israeli raid that killed two Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen in Syria last week, that Tehran “will respond to any attacks on its interests in Syria.”
Kanaani added: “Any action against Iran’s interests and our advisory forces in Syria will not go unanswered.”
Iranian official media reported on November 2 that two members of the Revolutionary Guard were working
As “military advisers” in Syria, they were killed in an Israeli raid, the first Iranian casualties to be announced during the war in Gaza, according to Reuters.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, since the beginning of this year, “Israel has targeted Syrian territory 56 times, including 41 air strikes and 15 ground strikes, which resulted in the destruction of about 115 targets, including weapons and ammunition depots, headquarters, centers, and vehicles.”
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syria since the outbreak of the war in 2011. However, it is rare for Israel to confirm carrying out strikes in Syria, but it reiterates that it is determined to confront what it describes as “Iran’s attempts to establish its military presence” in that country.
Israel’s strikes mainly targeted Iranian-backed factions and Lebanese Hezbollah members, in addition to Syrian regime forces’ positions, but it has intensified these attacks since the start of its war with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, on October 7.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announces the killing of two of its members in an “Israeli attack” in Syria
On Saturday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that two of its members were killed in an Israeli attack in Syria, noting that they were performing an “advisory mission.”
On November 8, 3 pro-Iranian fighters were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah sites, according to the Observatory.
In October, Israeli strikes put the main Syrian airports in Damascus and Aleppo out of service several times, within just two weeks.
Details of the US strikes on two Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities in Syria
On Friday, a senior American defense official revealed details of the strikes directed by the Pentagon against two Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities in Syria.
Damascus International Airport is still out of service since a strike on November 22, hours after it returned to service, according to Agence France-Presse.
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2023-12-04 08:44:57
