Israeli expert: 'Iran does not want direct confrontation with the US or with Israel that would involve the US...That could change.'
Mohammad Reza Zahedi, top IRGC member reported dead by Iranian media on Monday. The media slammed Israel for the attack, mentioning other members of the organization who died in the attack.
Aside from eulogies from the Islamic Republic, many celebrated the notice online in both Persian and Arabic, with users expressing their joy over the assassination.
The strike killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a top commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to a report in Reuters, citing a security source in Lebanon.
Two civilians injured in alleged Israeli strikes in the outskirts on Damascus.
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Earlier on Thursday, a site used by the IRGC in Sayyida Zeinab near Damascus was targeted in an alleged Israeli airstrike.
Syrian state media said seven Syrian soldiers and one civilian were killed in the strikes in the Deir Ezzor region.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) warned ISIS "still poses a great danger to our regions and the world.”