Iran Press/Asia: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a news conference in Ankara after a cabinet meeting stated that “Israel is trying to provoke a regional conflict, and its attack on Iran’s embassy in Damascus was the last drop."
Erdogan added that new regional conflicts are possible as long as the “cruelty and genocide” in Gaza continues, and he called on all parties to act with common sense. He also slammed the West for condemning Iran’s attack but not Israel’s strike on Iran’s embassy.
locations in Israel, in response to the Israeli terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria on 1 April 2024.
On 1 April 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a senior commander along with six other IRGC officers. Six Syrian civilians also were killed in the attack.
