#Iran had warned that #Israel would be "punished" for a strike on its consulate in #Syria on 1 April
Seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals, and six Syrians were killed in the Damascus attack
Israel has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in Syria that it says are linked to Iran but has not claimed the Damascus strike
#TheGlobalJigsaw has looked into how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps or #IRGC, the #Quds force and the #Basij militias operate and how have they become so influential. We examined the ideological blueprint of the #Tehran-led influence network that has been shaping events in the Middle East for decades:
Latest #IDF stmt: #Iran launched UAVs from within its territory toward #Israel. The IDF is on high alert and is monitoring the operational situation.
The IDF Aerial Defense Array is on high alert, along with IAF fighter jets and Israeli Navy vessels that are on a defense mission in Israeli air and naval space. The IDF is monitoring all targets.
We ask the public to adhere to and follow the instructions of the Home Front Command and the official IDF announcements regarding the matter."
Marine 1 is about to land w President Biden at Andrews airbase as he returns to the White House to meet his NatSec team in regards to the #Iran related escalation #MENA#Israel
V BBC's Frank Gardner: 'This is exactly the escalation in the simmering conflict between #Iran, its proxies and #Israel that everyone feared: a direct attack by one nation against another.
Israel has several layers of air defences and it has vowed to respond to any attack.
The risk now is that this tit-for-tat continues to escalate into a full-blown regional war, something most governments in the region have been trying hard to avoid ever since the #Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October.'
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