Iran is continuing to vow revenge for two Revolutionary Guards' senior officers killed in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital, earlier this week.
The Iranian foreign ministry’s website quoted ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, Wednesday, as saying revenge for the Monday strike will "definitely" be taken.
The Guards, in a statement issued late Tuesday, identified the two dead men as colonels Ehsan Karbalaipour and Morteza Saeednejad. It said in the same statement that Israel would "pay for this crime.”
Hundreds of Iranian forces have died in combat in Syria and Iraq. Iran claims its forces there are only “advisors”.
Syrian state media said the other two victims of Monday's strike on Damascus were civilians, while the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified them as pro-Iran Syrian militiamen.
The Observatory said the two dead Iranians killed belonged to Iran's elite Quds Force. Six militiamen were also wounded, it added.
The Observatory said Monday's was the seventh Israeli strike on Syria this year and that the target was a weapon and ammunition depot near Damascus airport.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is deployed in many parts of the region to carry out Iran’s aggressive agenda.