A senior general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard died on Monday in an Israeli air strike in Syria, near Damascus, Iranian state media announced this.
General Razi Moussavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in the Zeinabiyah district, on the outskirts of Damascus,” the official IRNA agency reported.
IRNA said Moussavi was “one of the most experienced advisors” sent to Syria by the Revolutionary Guard.
This was assured by the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi that Israel will “pay” for killing this important military leader.
“This action is undoubtedly another example of the frustration, impotence and inability of the usurping Zionist regime in the region,” he said in a statement.
According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition war monitor, Israel attacked the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood, located near a Shiite Muslim shrine.
IRNA described Mousavi as a close collaborator of General Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
Neither the Israeli military nor Syrian state media immediately released a statement on the attack.
While IRNA provided no other details about the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli army attacked Moussavi. after entering a local farm, which supposedly was one of several Hezbollah offices. The Lebanese militant group, along with Iran and Russia, played a key military role in keeping President Bashar Assad’s government in power during the Syrian conflict.
In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against targets within government-controlled areas in war-torn Syria.
He usually does not acknowledge his airstrikes in Syria. But when he does so, he says he targets Iranian-backed groups. who supported the government of Bashar al Assad.
Source: Clarin
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