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Israel kills senior Iranian general in Syria strike

Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Seyed Razi Mousavi (R).

“The barbaric Zionist regime will pay” for the death of Seyed Razi Mousavi, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said.

Israeli warplanes struck the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, killing a senior Iranian commander. Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that the general, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was in Syria to support the anti-Israel “resistance front.”

News of the strike was first reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency, and confirmed shortly afterwards by the IRGC. “A few hours ago, during the criminal missile attack of the child-killing Zionist regime on Damascus, Brigadier-General Seyed Razi Mousavi, one of the IRGC’s senior military advisers, was martyred,” the IRGC’s statement said.

At the time of his death, Mousavi was “responsible for supporting the resistance front in Syria,” the IRGC said, referring to the broad coalition of anti-Israel groups backed by Iran, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon and various Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.

“The usurping and barbaric Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” the statement concluded.

Mousavi was a close associate of Qasem Soleimani, who commanded the IRGC’s Quds Force from the late 1990s until his assassination by the US in 2020. The Quds Force primarily operates outside Iran, supporting and training Tehran’s allies, including those in the “resistance front.”

Its current commander, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, promised in November to aid Hamas in its fight against Israel, stating that Tehran would “not allow this brutal enemy and those standing behind him to conquer Gaza and its heroic people.” However, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly informed the Palestinian militant group that Iran’s support will not extend to direct military intervention.

The Israeli military has not commented on Sunday’s airstrike, and usually remains quiet about its operations in Syrian skies. Israeli planes have conducted semi-frequent missions in Syria since the war with Hamas began on October 7, striking airports and sites allegedly used by Iran-aligned militia groups.

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    • Iran is always fanning the flames of war: They have people in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and “sponsored” the Hamas 7 October massacre in southern Israel. Iran (via Hezbollah) is also responsible for the murder of 241 US Marines at the Lebanon Marine base in 1983, and the murder of about 100 people at a Jewish center in Argentina in 1994.

      The Persian people are nice people, but the Iranian regime is not. Women in Iran have been beaten to death by the “morality” Police for not wearing their Islamic clothing correctly.

      And remember, it is Iran (via Hezbollah) who are always firing rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel.

      • Whatevs Mark. Israel is responsible for killing 145 approx Palestinian children every day for the last 80 odd days.

        Israel deserves everything coming their way. The IDF are a bunch of cowards, incapable of fighting anyone other than rock throwing 10 year olds.

        • In the US before Roe V Wade was overturned, between 1973 and 2022, 65 million babies were killed at Planned Parenthood in the US. That is 1.3 million per year or 3561 per day. Therefore, 145 per day is about 4 percent of that. Just thought I’d provide some perspective …

          Cheers.

          P.S. Please stop firing rockets at Israel. Also, please stop raping, castrating, burning, beheading Jews. Failure to stop this guarantees a response you may not like. If you leave the Jews alone, they will leave you alone. Gosh, this is so simple! Why can people not understand this? Perhaps they do not want to. Perhaps their hatred for Jews is stronger than their love for their own people?

  1. “Many Israelis will require emotional and psychological treatment
    The study was conducted by Baziliansky and Dr. Wafaa Sowan from Haifa University’s School of Social Work.”
    https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hy8qocpu6
    Colour me surprised. Who would have thought a society that embraces victimhood as a creed, “Chosen-ness” as an article of faith whilst committing genocide on those whose land they covet could possibly have psychological problems??

    • That is the strategy : playing victim.
      Has been for centuries. Devious way to take advantage of compassion which they have not.
      Read “200 years together” by alexander soljenytsine( nobel price) It is an eye openener.

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