Iran has threatened Israel with retaliation following the death of high-ranking Iranian General Seyed Razi Mousavi in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general was killed on Monday in a suspected Israeli airstrike on a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. According to the New York Times, Mousavi is said to have helped monitor the delivery of missiles and other weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, which is backed by Iran and has repeatedly la
Israel's military chief, asked on Tuesday about a reported Israeli strike that killed a senior adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria, declined to comment but said Israeli forces work throughout the region. An Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed a senior adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three security sources and Iranian state media said.
three of them british. the israeli prime minister said the attack will only unify the country. they stopped for a minute silence to remember the victims of the latest attacks. politics and religion may divide people here but grief and loss is familiar to all. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. israel s also carried out air strikes near the syrian capital damascus in the last few hours. israel says it was in response to rockets that struck parts of israel s golan heights that had been fired from within syria and that it hit military targets. details are still emerging and we will keep you updated. taiwan s defence ministry says china is carrying out military drills around the island for a second day. washington s urged china to show restraint after it launched the exercises around taiwan, hours
around the world and the delivery of humanitarian aid. sanctions are explicitly designed not to have an effect. more importantly, the united nations maintains a multibillion-dollar a year aid program coordinated through the syrian capital damascus controlled and influenced by the regime. 91% is controlled by sanctioning entities, including the united states. there would be no aid otherwise. the real obstacles are political. the regime, of course, as distasteful and evil as has been maintains the status as a sovereign government. within the united nations it has a great deal of leverage and puts the u.n. under a good deal of pressure and restrains or contains its ability to deliver aid from foreign neighboring countries like turkey. and on day one after the earthquake, the regime said all earthquake relief has to come through damascus.
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