Israel bombs Iranian military at Syrian airport
11 leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike targeting Damascus International Airport on Thursday evening, Saudi media reported the following morning.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria, Nur Rashid, was injured in the airstrike, Saudi media channel Al-Hadath reported.
IRGC commanders were reportedly at the airport to meet with high-ranking delegates.
IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif denied on Friday reports that 11 of its leaders were killed in an airstrike in Damascus International Airport the night before, Iranian media quoted them as saying, as he said that such claims are "baseless."
Syrian media also claimed on Thursday evening that Israel had targeted sites in southern Syria and near Damascus with airstrikes in two separate waves. Syrian air defenses were activated in the Damascus area during the strikes. The country's media quoted one Syrian military source as saying that the alleged airstrike carried out by Israel came from the "occupied Syrian Golan Heights."
Earlier this week, Iran vowed that Israel would "pay" for the killing of Sayyed Reza Mousavi, another IRGC commander who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike last Monday in the vicinity of Damascus.
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"While there is no independent confirmation of Guard Corps names or ranks, the IRGC has long seen Syria as a critical regional hub to project power into the Eastern Mediterranean and connect its constellation of proxies called the ‘Axis of Resistance,’" Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said.
"It should come as a shock to no one that Guard Corps elite are operating there, especially amid a regional war, which they are directing far away from their own soil," he added.
The Iranians wouldn't necessarily be transiting through the airport. They may very well be based at the airport as they are in southern Lebanon.
Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad reports that four Iranians were executed after the death of Mousavi. The regime claimed that they were spies for Israel, but given the lack of a justice system in Iran, no one knows the truth.
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It is pretty clear that Iran is behind many of the attacks in Israel as well as the Houthis attacks in the Red Sea. So far the US response to the Red Sea attacks has been to use missile defense weapons on US warships in the area. I have argued that the US should be attacking the source of the attacks in Yemen. Sen. Lindsey Graham has argued that the US should be attacking Iran. It may come to that.
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