Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was reportedly killed in the strike in Damascus.
A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been killed in an airstrike on the country's consulate in Syria, according to Iranian state TV. Mohammad Reza Zahedi was reportedly killed in the explosion, which destroyed the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Tehran's ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, claimed between five and seven people had been killed in the strike.
Follow live updates on our Middle East blog A Lebanese security source who spoke to Reuters and Iran's Tasnim news agency claimed the explosion was an Israeli airstrike. Israel declined to comment on the incident. Read more from Sky News:Before-and-after photos show scale of Shifa hospital destructionVillagers duped into selling kidneys and told organ would regrow The death of Mr Zahedi and the destruction of the Iranian embassy is likely to further inflame tensions in the Middle East.
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