The Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, announced on February 8 the death of two senior officers, killed in an Israeli attack the day before in Syria, threatening to retaliate to avenge their deaths.
“The defenders of the shrine, the Colonels of the Guardians Ehsan Karbalaipur and Morteza Saidnejad were martyred, a crime committed by the Zionist regime during a rocket attack in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, yesterday morning (February 7) »according to a statement published on Sepah News, the Guardians’ website. “The Zionist regime (Israel, editor’s note) will pay for this crime”promise the Guardians.