Baqeri: Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was ‘suicide’

Iran’s highest-ranking military commander says the recent Israeli aggression on the Iranian diplomatic facilities in the Syrian capital, Damascus, was a “political suicide”.

Major General Mohammad Baqeri, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, made the statement as he was speaking at the funeral ceremony of Major General Mohammad Reza Zahedi in the Iranian city if Isfahan on Saturday.

Zahedi was among the seven military advisors of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) who were martyred in the Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus on Monday afternoon, according to Press TV.

“The recent missile attack on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, as a headquarters with international immunity, is a kind of madness and spells the suicide of the Zionist entity,” Baqeri said. He stressed that the Israeli aggression on the Iranian consulate resulted from the Zionist entity’s despair, stressing that “we will punish the enemy with the help of our valiant men and we will surely take our revenge.”

Iran’s top military official underlined that “we have learned from our great commanders to determine the time, type and plan of operations by ourselves.

He also said that the main responsibility for the attack lies on the US, stressing that Washington must be held accountable.

Israeli warplanes bombed with six missiles the Iranian consulate, situated next to the embassy building in Damascus’s Mezzeh district, on April 1.