A military advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that no Israeli embassy is “safe,” after seven Iranian soldiers were killed in an attack blamed on Israel on an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus.
“No Israeli embassy is safe,” said Revolutionary Guards General Yahya Rahim Safavi, quoted by local news agency ISNA.
Iran has promised to retaliate after the Israeli airstrikes that destroyed the consular building of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, the capital of Syria, on Monday.
The attack killed seven members of the Revolutionary Guardthe ideological army of the Islamic Republic, including two high-ranking officers.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, The total number of victims was 16.
Rahim Safavi said that due to Iranian threats, Israel had closed 27 embassies “out of fear”, including those in “Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and Turkey”, information which could not be confirmed by other sources.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Israel on Wednesday he would receive “a slap” for the attack.
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Furthermore, Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian stated that Israel used fighter jets missiles produced by the United States in the attack on his consulate in Syria and insisted that Tehran punish the “attackers.”
Debris in the war-torn Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus, Syria. EFE photo“This act of the Zionist regime (Israel) was a terrorist attack in which they used fighter jets and missiles produced by the United States,” Abdolahian said in a meeting in Muscat, the Omani capital, with Yemen’s top Houthi official Mohamed Abdul Salam.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in addition to adopting legal measures recognized by international law, will demand accountability and punish attackers.”assured the Iranian diplomat.
In the meeting with Abdul, the Houthis’ chief negotiator with Saudi Arabia, Abdolahian described the situation as a “violation of territorial integrity” of Yemen the attacks against this country by the United States and the United Kingdom.
At the same time, the Iranian diplomat described these attacks as “supporting the crimes of the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian nation.”
Abdolahian arrived in Oman this Sunday on an official visit and will then travel to Syria, according to regional media reports not confirmed by Iranian authorities.
The diplomat will then travel to Damascus where on Monday there was an attack against the Iranian consulate in which seven members of the Revolutionary Guard and six Syrian citizens died, and for which Tehran has blamed Tel Aviv.
The diplomat’s warnings add to the list of Iranian authorities who have vowed revenge for Monday’s attack on the Iranian consulate.
This same Sunday, a military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said that Israeli embassies were “no longer secure,” suggesting that Tehran could attack the Jewish state’s diplomatic headquarters.
In response to Iranian calls for retaliation, Israeli authorities have assured that Israel is on “high alert”. ready for “a variety of scenarios”.
Source: Clarin
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