Israeli airstrike destroys Iran's consular building in Damascus, killing several, says Syrian media
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Syrian state media say an Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside.
  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    This seems pretty bad. Iran has to retaliate, which might good the US into more involvement. Maybe that is Israel’s plan.

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      8 months ago

      Meanwhile fucking boneless Canada isn’t going to say a thing. You see the building to the right of the one that is destroyed? That’s the Canadian embassy.

    • queermunist she/her
      4·
      8 months ago

      Everyone Israel has targeted has done their best to avoid escalating the situation and getting the US involved.

      This is just going to be another thing Iran chooses to not respond to with military force.

      • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        I was thinking of how Iran had to respond to the US assassinating Qasem Soleimani. However, maybe there is a pattern of not retaliating or only retaliating indirectly to Israel’s excesses of which I am not aware.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Charles Lister, director of the Syria program of the Washington-based Middle East Institute think tank, called the strike a “major escalation.” The attack is sure to draw retaliation, he wrote on the social media platform X.

    Syria’s foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, said “several” people were killed, and a phone call with his counterpart in Iran, he condemned Israel.

    State news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military source, said the building in the tightly guarded neighborhood of Mazzeh was leveled.

    Though it rarely acknowledges its actions in Syria, Israel has said it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.

    An Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood in December killed a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi.

    Last week, airstrikes over the strategic eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour near the Iraqi border killed an Iranian adviser.

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