James Myers of OAN
1:23 PM – Monday, April 1, 2024
Israel shot down senior Iranian commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi in a Syrian airstrike on Monday, Iranian state media said.
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“[Israel has] The red line has been crossed,” Iranian Ambassador to Syria Hossein Akbari said in a broadcast on Iranian state media on Monday. “Iran has never left unanswered any crimes of the Zionist regime. Therefore, the Zionists and their allies must, in proportion to the crimes they have committed, We definitely know that we need to wait for an appropriate response based on our choices.”
Zahedi became the highest-ranking Iranian military official to be killed since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7.th.
The Iranian has much responsibility for Israel’s borders and was also a top-level interlocutor between Tehran and the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Israel has targeted Iranian forces in Syria multiple times since Iran sent troops to support Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
“The exact number and names of the victims will be made public after the rubble is cleared,” the Iranian embassy in Lebanon said, according to the newspaper. jerusalem post office.
The airstrike came days after an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed 53 people, including 38 soldiers and seven Hezbollah members. This was the highest death toll for Syrian troops in a single airstrike since the war began.
Additionally, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team declined to confirm whether Israel had given the US any last-minute warnings of an impending attack.
“We are consulting with our regional partners and gathering additional information,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. “However, at this time, neither the target nor the person responsible has been confirmed.”
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