Iran blames Israel after bomb kills colonel of Revolutionary Guards in Syria

Col Davoud Jafari and bodyguard were reportedly killed on Monday near Damascus

An improvised bomb has killed an Iranian colonel from the aerospace division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps near Syria's capital, Damascus, Iranian media reported, blaming Israel for the attack.

The Islamic republic regularly calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, which in turn sees Iran, with its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and its regional proxies, as its biggest security threat.