Iran warns, no embassy in Israel is safe

An adviser to Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned on Sunday that no Israeli embassy is safe anymore. He made this threat after the incident in which at least 16 people, including a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, were killed in an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, Syria.

Khamenei's senior adviser Yahya Rahim Safabi said, "The resistance front is ready; Wait to see how the response to the attack will be. He further said that it is a legal and legitimate right to confront this brutal ruler.

This Iranian official said that many Israeli embassies in the Middle East have already been closed. Meanwhile, Israel has not commented on this Iranian threat.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitoring organization, said that 16 people were killed in the attack last Monday. It was Israel's fifth strike in Syria in less than a week. The elite Quds Force senior commander Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi were among those killed in the attack.

In recent years, Israeli forces have acknowledged hundreds of attacks on various targets in Syria, which they claim have been supplying arms, money and training to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Israeli attacks have intensified since the war in Gaza began in October last year. At the same time, Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon and Syria also carried out cross-border attacks on Israel.

Iran does not recognize Israel and the two countries have waged a shadow war for years. Iran has been accusing Israel of carrying out a series of sabotage attacks and assassinations targeting its nuclear program.