An Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Syria on Monday killed at least eight people, including a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Damascus, raising concerns that other countries would join the conflict against Tel Aviv’s crackdown in Gaza. -running Iranian RNA the report said.

Media reports from Iran stated that the Iranian diplomatic mission, including the ambassador, was not injured in multiple attacks, some of which were intercepted by the Syrian air force.

It is the first major attack by Israeli forces on the extraterritorial jurisdiction of arch-enemy Iran since the resistance group Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, while Tel Aviv has committed atrocities against innocent Palestinians for decades.

Iranian more News agency quotes a lot of It was pointed out that the target of “Zionist forces” was the Meze neighborhood of Damascus.

It was also reported that Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad had a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Hussein Amirabdullahian to condemn the Israeli attack.

Video footage and pictures from local media outlets showed plumes of black smoke billowing from the scene of the attack, prompting an emergency response from local authorities.

The Israeli military said after the missile attack that it “does not comment on foreign media reports.”

Last week, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire amid Israeli ground operations triggered by Hamas’s response on October 7.