On January 20, Reuters news agency reported that in an attack on a building in Damascus, four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including the head of IRGC Quds Force intelligence unit, were killed.
In this regard, the public relations department of the IRGC also announced in a statement the killing of “four military advisers of the Islamic Republic” in today’s attack on Damascus.
The Telegram channel Saberin News, affiliated with the IRGC in Iran, reported the killing of Sadegh Omidzadeh, the deputy intelligence officer of the Quds Force of the IRGC, along with four other IRGC members named Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Saeed Karimi and Mohammad Amin Samadi.
An official of an Iran-backed group in the Middle East also told the Associated Press that this building was used by IRGC officials and added that “Israeli missiles” completely destroyed the building.
Prior to this, Reuters had reported, citing sources in the Regional Coalition Supporting Syria, that a senior official of the IRGC was killed in an airstrike today on a building in Damascus, which Syrian media attributed to Israel.
This source said that this multi-story building was used by Iranian advisers supporting the Syrian government and was completely demolished.
A video published in the media shows a large plume of smoke rising in the “Al-Mazzeh” neighborhood. Syrian state media referred to this attack as an “Israeli aggression.”
Earlier, on January 8, six informed sources told Reuters that Israel had launched an unprecedented wave of deadly attacks in Syria, targeting trucks, infrastructure, and individuals involved in the transfer of Iranian regime weapons to its proxy forces in the region.
These sources, including a Syrian army intelligence officer and a commander of the regional coalition supporting Damascus, said that Israel had changed its strategy after the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
According to these sources, although Israel has been attacking targets related to the Iranian regime in Syria for years, it is now carrying out more deadly and frequent airstrikes on air defense systems and arms transfers in Syria.
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reacted to the killing of four Quds Force in Damascus due to airstrikes.
He attributed these attacks to Israel and called them a “repeated violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and an escalation of aggressive and provocative attacks on various targets” in the country.
The Iranian regime has launched attacks on Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan in the past week.
Kanaani also threatened that Iran considers its “reciprocal right to respond to organized terrorism” by Israel “reserved for itself at the appropriate time and place.”
