Iran: These are our conditions for not targeting Israel in response to the consulate bombing in Damascus

An Iranian source close to the Iranian Foreign Ministry revealed that “Tehran received a message from the United States calling for reducing the escalation and not attacking Israel,” in response to Iran’s previous message regarding its intention to attack Israel directly.

The Iranian source said, “Iran made it a condition for withdrawing from its operations deep inside Israel that Washington guarantees a permanent and immediate truce in Gaza and that the Israeli army does not carry out the planned attack on Rafah”.

He added, “Diplomacy of secret messages and regional mediation haven’t yet fully yielded results, but they have come a reliable way to stopping military operations in Gaza during the coming period”.

The source continued that “the Iranian conditions don’t mean that it has completely abandoned revenge for its victims from the Zionist entity, and that the indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran seek to discourage the latter from striking the Israeli depths at the present time,” stressing that “what matters to his country now is saving the innocents in Gaza in the hope of liquidating the Accounts with the enemy later”.

Last Monday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the martyrdom of two of its military advisors and five officers accompanying them in Syria, following an Israeli raid on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that Israel had launched an air strike on the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which led to its complete destruction and the death and injury of all those inside.

For its part, last Tuesday, the Iranian Supreme Security Council held a meeting in the presence of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, after the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

The secretariat of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council said, “The Council took the appropriate decisions regarding the war crime related to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus,” noting that the Council’s decisions were taken in a session attended by Raisi.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian confirmed that his country summoned the charge d’affaires of the Swiss embassy to confirm the responsibility of the United States in the attack on the Tehran consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.