Four Iranians, including the head of intelligence in Syria for the Revolutionary Guards and his deputy, were killed in an Israeli strike which targeted a building in Damascus this Saturday, the Guards and media in Tehran announced. The Guards Corps, Iran’s ideological army, announced in a statement the death of “four military advisers of the Islamic Republic” and “a number of Syrian forces” in “an air attack carried out by the Israeli hunters.
He did not specify the functions of the victims, but the Iranian agency Mehr indicated that they were the “head of intelligence of the Guards in Syria of his deputy, as well as two other members of this force”. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced that the Israeli strike had targeted a neighborhood sheltering leaders of the Guards, as well as pro-Iranian Palestinian factions.
This building, in the Mazzé district, was destroyed by the strike. The Guards announced on Tuesday that they had launched several salvos of ballistic missiles on targets in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, destroying “a spy headquarters” which they attributed to Israel. These strikes killed at least “four civilians” and injured six, according to Iraqi authorities.