Iran’s IRGC chief warned that Israel “cannot escape the consequences” for the April 1 strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus. The airstrike that flattened the five-storey consular annexe of the Iranian embassy killed seven Guards. Iran said among the dead was a senior Quds Force commander, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi. Zahedi, 63, was the Quds Force commander for the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Lebanon.Zahedi is the highest-ranking Iranian soldier killed since a 2020 US missile strike in Iraq killed General Qassem Soleimani, who headed the Quds Force.