Middle East crisis: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps says two of its generals killed in Damascus consulate strike – as it happened

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• Iran vows revenge after two generals killed in Israeli strike on Syria consulate

Hossein Akbari, the Iranian ambassador in Syria, has said Tehran will reciprocate when we want" to what he described as the extreme brutality" of the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

Posting to social media, Akbari wrote:

With extreme brutality, contrary to all international conventions, they targeted my place of residence and the consular section of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran; We will reciprocate when we want.