2024-04-21 21:28:45
Tehran: On April 1, there was an air strike on the Iranian Consulate in Syria. Iran blamed Israel for this air strike. Whereas Israel has been denying this. Iran was so enraged by this incident that it attacked Israel with missiles and drones. But Iran was not angry at Israel just like that. The Bloomberg Television Network revealed on Saturday night that the air strike had eliminated the entire command responsible for the activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria and Lebanon. The report said senior officials were responsible for Hezbollah’s operations in the region. were important for the activities. According to the report, General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy Mohammad Hadi Rahimi, along with other officers killed, were convinced that the consulate building next to the embassy was the safest place in Damascus and that Israel would not dare to attack this place. Before the airstrike, the residences of the Iranian ambassador and consul were to be transferred to an apartment complex on the same street where two brothers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also live.
Iran was forced to attack
According to the report, shortly before the attack, senior ranking officials of the IRGC in Syria met on the second floor of the consulate building and decided to remain there. The attack on the Syrian consulate forced Iran to launch a direct attack on Israel for the first time. Immediately after the killing, Iran expressed suspicion that the attack may have been carried out by groups that have been involved in killings of IRGC personnel in the past few years.
Israel’s defense system destroyed
Israel retaliated after Iran’s strong attack. Iran was shaken by the Israeli airstrike on Friday. According to a New York Times report, the Israeli attack on Friday damaged Iran’s air defense system. Through this attack, Israel wanted to show that it could bypass Iran’s defensive systems without detection and paralyze them whenever it wanted. The strike damaged a defensive battery near Natanz in central Iran, according to two Western officials and two Iranian officials.