Iranian state media claims an Israeli airstrike outside Damascus in Syria on Monday killed a senior advisor in Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported that three security sources confirmed the death of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was responsible for coordinating a military alliance between Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n
State television interrupted programming to announce the death of Mousavi and described him as one of the oldest advisors for the Guard in Syria.<\/p>\n
The announcement stated that Mousavi accompanied Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Guards\u2019 elite Quds Force, who died in a U.S. drone attack in Iraq in 2020.<\/p>\n
Damascus Hossein Akbari, Iran\u2019s ambassador, told state television that the late Mousavi was in the embassy as a diplomat, adding he was killed by missiles fired by Israel after returning home from work.<\/p>\n
The assassination was a show of Israel\u2019s weakness, according to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.<\/p>\n
\u2018This act is a sign of the Zionist regime\u2019s frustration and weakness in the region for which it will certainly pay the price,\u2019 Raisi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Echoing Raisi, the Revolutionary Guards also said Israel would suffer for killing the advisor.<\/p>\n
\u2018The usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime,\u2019 the Guards said in a statement provided to state TV.<\/p>\n
Nasser Kanaani, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, told state TV, \u2018Iran reserves the right to take necessary measures to respond to this action at the appropriate time and place.\u2019<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military did not immediately comment on Mousavi\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Attacks on Iran-linked targets in Syria by Israel are nothing new and have taken place for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tehran\u2019s influence in the country has continued to grow after backing President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that broke out in 2011 in Syria.<\/p>\n
Iran claimed earlier this month that Israeli strikes killed two members of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria, who also served as military advisers.<\/p>\n
Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
Iranian state media claims an Israeli airstrike outside Damascus in Syria on Monday killed a senior advisor in Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards. Reuters reported that three security sources confirmed the death of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was responsible for coordinating a military alliance between Iran and Syria. State television interrupted programming to announce the death of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}