Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials killed in an airstrike

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard acknowledged the killing of “four military advisors” in an Israeli raid on a house in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and announced their names without revealing their military ranks.

The Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported, citing the Public Relations of the Revolutionary Guards, that Hojatollah Amidwar, Ali Aqazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, and Saeed Karimi were killed.

The Revolutionary Guard said in a statement that "four military advisors to the Islamic Republic" and "several members of the Syrian forces" were killed in the Syrian capital, accusing Israel of being behind the attack.

Earlier, the media in Iran had reported the news of the killing of Sadegh Omidzadeh, known as "Hajj Sadiq," the intelligence commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in those attacks.

After the announcement of the new Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Students' News Agency explained that "Hajj Sadiq", the operational name of Hojjatollah Amidwar, was the deputy intelligence officer of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria and wrote that he was present in this country as a military advisor "at the invitation of the Syrian government."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that six people were killed in the raid that targeted a building that was hosting a "meeting of leaders close to Iran."

The raid comes four days after the Revolutionary Guard announced that it attacked an "Israeli intelligence headquarters" in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, in response to Israel's targeting of Revolutionary Guard leader Radhi Mousavi in ​​Damascus on December 25.

The Iraqi authorities announced that the attack resulted in the killing of four civilians and the wounding of six others.

Israel refused to comment or confirm the raid.