3 Generals among 5 Iran Guards killed in Israeli strike on Damascus; Tehran vows to carry out revenge attacks

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Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers killed in an Israeli strike that flattened a building in Damascus on Saturday were described in Iranian state media with an honorific used only for generals, suggesting the targets were senior commanders...

Tehran vowed on Saturday to take revenge on Israel after the strike which it said killed five Guards and an unspecified number of Syrian troops...

It was completely flattened by "precision-targeted Israeli missiles", the source said.. Portraits of the five Revolutionary Guards carried on Iranian state media referred to three of them with an honorific used for Generals, while the others were a major and someone holding a lower rank..

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed Palestinian faction present in Syria and Lebanon, condemned the air strike but told Reuters that none of its members were wounded, dismissing reports that some were at the bombed-out building...

In December, an Israeli air strike killed two Guards members, and another near Damascus on Dec. 25 killed a senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing military coordination between Syria and Iran...

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