“Meqdad Meqdani was wounded during the Zionist attack on Friday dawn and was martyred,” the semi-official Mehr news agency said, adding that he had been a military adviser to the IRGC, according to the Reuters news agency. A second IRGC adviser, Milad Heydari, was also killed in the strike.
The IRGC has threatened to avenge the incident, saying: “The Zionist regime will undoubtedly receive a response to this crime.”
Meanwhile, some Israeli media outlets were reporting unattributed assessments that the string of airstrikes in Syria — three in four consecutive nights — could be linked to last month’s suspected Hezbollah terror bombing near Megiddo in northern Israel, which Jerusalem believes was carried out by a terrorist who crossed the Lebanon border fence using a ladder. One man was seriously wounded in the attack.
While many details of the investigation into Megiddo bombing are barred from publication, the Haaretz news site cited a speculation that the series of airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria could indicate that the IRGC was involved in the latest security incidents. READ MORE
