Last Updated on April 1, 2024
Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza has once again spilled over international borders as the Israeli military has reportedly conducted an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, killing a top-ranking Iranian military commander at the Iranian consulate there.
The Jerusalem Post reports that “Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for Lebanon and Syria was assassinated in an airstrike on Monday, along with his lieutenant and about five other officers.”
Also according to The Jerusalem Post, the airstrike on Damascus, Syria, “targeted the building adjacent to the Iranian consulate, reported to be used as a military command center for the IRGC.”
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Israel’s strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate also comes as both Israel and its American allies have publicly gone out of their way to pull the Persian power into a conflict, using Israel’s war against Hamas, a group that’s been subsidized by Iran, as a catalyst for it.
In addition to increased Israeli strikes on Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, earlier this year, the United States struck targets linked to Iran all over the Middle East, including positions held by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard military force.
As National File reported at the time:
American bombers struck targets throughout Iraq and Syria that the Biden Administration says are linked to Iran and its Revolutionary Guard, as well as recent strikes on US forces in the area…
…In a White House statement officially announcing the US strikes, Biden threatened further military action, saying that while “Our response began today[,] It will continue at times and places of our choosing.”
In another statement, this one from Lloyd Austin, the Biden Defense Secretary said that the strikes in Iraq and Syria were only “the start of our response” and that Biden “directed additional actions to hold [Iran’s Revolutionary Guard] and affiliated militia accountable for their attacks on US and coalition forces.”
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Preceding the strikes on the Revolutionary Guard, Iran also fell victim to an apparent ISIS attack that many believed to be linked to the CIA and Mossad, given both of those group’s ties to ISIS terror networks around the Middle East, as well as the timing and location of the ISIS strike in Iran, coming at the tomb of fallen Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a January 3rd, 2020 drone strike ordered by 45th President Trump.
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At the outbreak of Israel’s war with Hamas, political leaders in both Israel and the United States made it abundantly clear that they hoped to engage Iran as part of the conflict, including failed Presidential candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who blamed Iran for the 10/7 Hamas raid on Israel and called it “not just an attack on Israel” but “an attack on America” as well.
“This is not just an attack on Israel, this is an attack on America because they hate us just as much,” Haley told Fox News.
“And what we have to understand is this is the reason that we have to unite around making sure our enemies do not hurt our friends,” she went on, before encouraging war with Iran over the ongoing conflict in Israel and looping the whole situation together to include the war in Ukraine, a conflict that Haley has vehemently supported the escalation of.
“America can never be so arrogant to think that we don’t need friends, just like we needed them on 9/11. That’s why Ukraine needs us when Russia’s doing this, and that’s why Israel needs us when Hamas and Iran are doing this.”
“And I’ll say this to Prime Minister Netanyahu: Finish them. Finish them,” Haley added. “Hamas did this, you know Iran’s behind it. Finish them. They should have hell to pay for what they’ve just done.”