Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed retaliation against Israel after the assassination of a senior commander in a reported Israeli strike in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday. Brig Gen Razi Mousavi, known as Sayyed Razi, was a close colleague of the late IRGC leader Qassem Suleimani and was “responsible for supporting the resistance front in Syria”, the Corp’s media arm said. The IRGC promised retribution in the statement announcing Mousavi’s death, saying that “the usurping and barbaric Zionist regime will pay for this crime, without a doubt”.
