The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that Sayyed Reza Mousavi, an IRGC commander, was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike last Monday in the vicinity of Damascus.
Iran has vowed revenge for the death of Mousavi, who was reportedly responsible for fashioning a military alliance between Iran and Syria.
Now there's a report in the
Jerusalem Post that a strike on the Damascus airport took out 11 IRGC commanders. J-Post quotes Saudi Arabian media, but the reports are entirely plausible.
"While there is no independent confirmation of Guard Corps names or ranks, the IRGC has long seen Syria as a critical regional hub to project power into the Eastern Mediterranean and connect its constellation of proxies called the ‘Axis of Resistance,’" Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said.
"It should come as a shock to no one that Guard Corps elite are operating there, especially amid a regional war, which they are directing far away from their own soil," he added.
The Iranians wouldn't necessarily be transiting through the airport. They may very well be based at the airport as
they are in southern Lebanon.
Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad reports that four Iranians were executed after the death of Mousavi. The regime claimed that they were spies for Israel, but given the lack of a justice system in Iran,
no one knows the truth.
This act follows a pattern of revenge by the regime. When it loses a commander, it targets its own citizens, demonstrating its inability to directly confront countries like the United States and Israel, who it considers enemies.
Three years ago, after the United States killed top general Qasem Soleimani, the regime shot down a Ukrainian plane. This action killed 176 innocent people, including women and children, as a form of revenge. The regime demonstrates its brutality by killing its unarmed citizens and yielding to its adversaries.
This is the true face of the totalitarian regime: a cowardly act of targeting the defenseless.
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