{"id":2210563,"date":"2024-04-01T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-takes-out-iranian-commander-in-syria-strike-report\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:19:26","slug":"israel-takes-out-iranian-commander-in-syria-strike-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-takes-out-iranian-commander-in-syria-strike-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Forces Target Iranian Commander in Syria Attack: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-takes-out-iranian-commander-in-syria-strike-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israeli warplanes conducted \u2062a strike on the Iranian consulate \u200din Damascus, resulting in the reported death \u2063of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander. \u2063This incident \u200dled to a building being destroyed, as witnessed\u2064 by Reuters\u200c journalists at the scene. Israeli \u2063military \u200crefrained from commenting, while Syrian state television confirmed\u200c the attack. Recent \u200cescalation follows Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israel,\u200c prompting increased Israeli airstrikes against Iranian-backed\u200b groups in Syria.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday, and a Lebanese security source told Reuters a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had been killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble of a building that had been flattened, and emergency vehicles parked outside.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli military spokesperson said: &#8220;We do not comment on reports in the foreign media.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Syrian state television confirmed the consulate building had been attacked. Earlier, Iranian media reported that a building close to the embassy had been hit, and Iran&#8217;s student news agency reported that the target was the consulate and ambassador&#8217;s residence.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Iranian-backed Palestinian faction Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel has ramped up airstrikes in Syria against Lebanon&#8217;s Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia and Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard Corps, both of which support the government of President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli warplanes targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday. A Lebanese security source revealed to Reuters that Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in the attack. Smoke billowed from the rubble in the Mezzeh district as Reuters journalists witnessed the aftermath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2210564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-01T154749Z_1_LYNXNPEK300O3_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SYRIA-IRAN-scaled-e1711986849578.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-01T154749Z_1_LYNXNPEK300O3_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SYRIA-IRAN-scaled-e1711986849578.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}