MUSCAT: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian claimed on Sunday that the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the capital city of Syria, was carried out with the US-made missiles.
The announcement was made during Abdollahian’s statements in the Sultanate of Oman on Sunday.
Abdollahian condemned the attack as a “terrorist” act carried out by the “Zionist entity” using aircraft and missiles manufactured in the United States. He emphasized Tehran’s determination to hold the aggressors accountable for their actions and to pursue both legal and international measures in response to the incident.
The allegations by the Iranian Foreign Minister underscore escalating tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States in the region. The attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus adds to the longstanding animosity and geopolitical complexities characterizing relations among these nations.
Earlier on Sunday, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader warned that Israeli embassies are “no longer safe” after a strike in Syria which Tehran blamed on Israel killed seven Revolutionary Guards members. On April 1, Israel struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which Tehran has pledged to retaliate.
Iran Warns Israeli Embassies ‘No Longer Safe’ After Damascus Attack
The official, an adviser to Supreme Leader Yahya Rahim Safavi, emphasized the vulnerability of Israeli diplomatic missions. “The embassies of the Zionist regime are no longer safe,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
“The resistance front is ready; how it (the response) will be, we have to wait,” Yahya Rahim Safavi said, noting that “confronting this brutal regime is a legal and legitimate right”.
Monday’s attack, which Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said killed 16 people, was the fifth raid on Syria in a week blamed on Israel. Among the dead were generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi who were senior commanders in the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm.
