BEIRUT: Iranian state media said an Israeli airstrike killed a high-ranking Iranian general in a Damascus neighborhood on Monday.
The killing of Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser to the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, comes as clashes between Hezbollah and Israel on the Lebanon-Israel border escalate and the Israel-Hamas war escalates a territorial dispute with Iran. The fears of giving birth are increasing. -Supported group. Two other generals were killed in Israeli strikes in Syria earlier this month.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel struck the Sayida Zainab neighborhood, located near a Shia Muslim shrine. IRNA described Mousavi as a close associate of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
Neither the Israeli military nor Syrian state media immediately issued a statement about the attack.
Although IRNA did not provide other details about the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli forces targeted Mousavi after entering a farm in the area, which was reportedly one of several Hezbollah offices. . The Lebanese militant group, along with Iran and Russia, has played a key military role in keeping President Bashar Assad’s government in power during the Syrian conflict.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years.
He generally does not acknowledge his air strikes on Syria. But when it does, it says it is targeting Iranian-backed groups there that have supported Assad’s government.
