Iran

[Lyneham Lad]

This afternoon in The Guardian.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say Israel “will pay” for killing one of its commanders, Iranian state TV reports

Reuters and Tasnim news agency said earlier that an airstrike killed Sayyed Razi Mousavi outside Syria’s capital, Damascus.

“Undoubtedly, the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said in a statement read on Iranian state TV.

Mousavi was an IRGC member responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran.

The IRGC described him as one of their oldest advisers in Syria, holding the rank of brigadier-general.

Iran’s state television reported that Mousavi had been “among those accompanying Qassem Soleimani”, the head of the Guards’ elite Quds Force, who had been killed in 2020 in a US drone attack in Iraq.