Hawzah News Agency- Brigadier General Rashid Wali Janjua, research director of the Islamabad Political Research Institute (IPRI), stated,” Israel targeted the Iranian consulate in Syrian capital of Damascus amid the great pressure caused by the defeat in the Gaza war to divert world public opinion, and today we are witnessing the appropriate response of Iran to Zionists crimes.”

The Pakistani military expert further noted that Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was a violation of the territory of an independent and free country, and the Islamic Republic of Iran promised to take revenge on the perpetrators of this violation.

Elsewhere in his remarks Brigadier General Rashid Wali Janjua reiterated that Israel's behavior in the region made Tehran's military response inevitable and it seems that this response was given in the appropriate time.

He further said that the Zionists have committed the massacre of more than 33,000 Palestinians as well as relief forces and are seeking to expand the scope of the Gaza war in order to divert the world's attention from Palestine and Israel's defeat on the Gaza front.

In response to the Israeli terrorist attack on Iran's consulate building in Syria on April 1, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked targets in occupied Palestine with dozens of drones and missiles early on Sunday.

The Israeli regime attacked Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it.

Seven of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military advisors were martyred following the Israeli attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus.