Israeli strike has destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Syria’s capital, Damascus, Syrian state media report. Strike levels building in Iran embassy compound, killing Mohammad Reza Zahedi, IRGC Quds Force’s Syria-Lebanon chief; deputy also reported killed; Tehran FM says Israel is responsible Photos show smoke and dust rising from the flattened multi-storey structure in the west of the cityIsraeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday, and a Lebanese security source told Reuters a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had been killed in the attack.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency said five people were killed in the Israeli strike. Syria’s SANA state news agency reported an unspecified number of deaths and injuries.
Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble of a building that had been flattened, and emergency vehicles parked outside.
