Iran’s top diplomat said on Tuesday that an “important message” had been conveyed to the US following a deadly attack attributed to Israel on Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The attack on Monday killed seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two senior commanders, the IRGC said.
In a post on the social media platform X, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that an official from the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which serves as an intermediary for US interests in Iran, was summoned by the foreign ministry at 12:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
During the meeting, “the dimensions of the terrorist attack and the crime of the Israeli regime were explained, and the responsibility of the American government was emphasized,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
Mohammad-Reza Zahedi and his deputy Mohammad-Hadi Haji-Rahimi were among the casualties, both described by the IRGC as “Iran’s senior military advisors in Syria.”
Zahedi, the highest-ranking casualty, was responsible for overseeing operations in Lebanon and Syria for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm, according to Iranian state media.
