Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said that a fatal attack by the Israeli regime on Iranian military advisors in Syria shows how desperate and helpless the regime has become in dealing with the regional Axis of Resistance.

According to The Iran Project,In a message issued on Saturday, Raisi said that Iran will definitely respond to Israel’s “cowardly terror act” that killed five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) earlier in the day in the Syrian capital Damascus.

The Iranian president said the attack was a sign of defeat and lack of success for “the illegitimate Zionist regime” in its struggle to reach evil objectives, adding that hegemonic countries led by the United States are enablers of such crimes because they continue to offer support to the Israeli regime. 

Raisi also said the attack would be another stain on the record of all governments who claim to be the advocates of human rights because it violated Syria’s airspace and trampled on human and international laws.

The IRGC said on Saturday that five of its officers, who had been serving in Syria in an advisory capacity, had been killed in the Israeli attack on a residential building in Damascus.

Iranian authorities said the attack was an attempt by the Israeli regime to divert attention from its continued military campaign in Gaza where it has killed nearly 25,000 Palestinians since it launched the aggression in early October.