Iran's FM inaugurates new consulate in Syria's Damascus after Israeli attack
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has inaugurated the new site for the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, one week after the previous building came under Israeli missile attack.
Amir-Abdollahian opened the new site in a ceremony attended by his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, on Monday.
Earlier, the two top diplomats and their accompanying delegations visited the previous site of the Iranian Embassy’s Consular Section, located in the Mezzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital, which was destroyed in the Israeli attack.
Mekdad was among the first high-ranking Syrian officials that made a visit to Iran's Embassy shortly after the missile attack.
Condemning the Israeli aggression at the time, Mekdad said, “The Israeli occupation entity will not be able to impact the relations between Iran and Syria.”
Israel targeted with six missiles the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital in a terrorist attack on April 1, leaving seven people martyred, including a senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander.
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi were among the martyrs of the terrorist attack.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has vowed that Iran will “punish” Israel and make the evil regime “regret” its crime of assassinating the country's military advisors in Syria.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has also said the Israel regime’s crime against Iranian military advisers in Syria “will not go unanswered.”
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