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Iranian officials said a Revolutionary Guard senior commander was among those killed in the consulate strike in Damascus, in a major increase in regional tensions.
Iranian state media said Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander with Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was among the dead.
Israeli strikes hit an Iranian embassy annex building in Syria's capital Monday, state media said, as a war monitor reported six people were killed in the building. Iranian media also reported that the strikes in Damascus completely destroyed the annex building, and that the ambassador was unharmed.