🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — 📰 Reuters: Iran embassy strike shows Israel's growing reach as Mideast boils

➡️ Hounded by months of deadly Israeli attacks in Syria, Iranian military commanders thought it safe to convene a top-level meeting inside Iran's embassy compound in Damascus, believing it protected by international norms shielding diplomatic missions, according to a dozen Iranian, Syrian and regional officials.

➡️ They were wrong.

➡️ An airstrike on the compound killed seven Iranian officers on Monday - among them one of Iran's top soldiers, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). It was the boldest, and deadliest, in a series of attacks that have picked off Iranian officials in Syria since December.

➡️ Blamed by Tehran on Israel, the attack was a rare military strike on diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and drew swift condemnation from the UN and EU. Analysts view it as a significant escalation in a wider Israeli campaign to degrade the influence carved out by Iran in Syria over the last decade.

➡️ Zahedi had arrived in Syria a day or so before the attack and was staying at the embassy compound with two other senior commanders, according to an Iranian source who, like others in this story, asked not be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — 📰 Reuters: An Iranian security source said Iran would adjust its tactics in light of Monday's strike, without giving further details. A regional source close to Iran said there was no longer any secure place in Syria after Israel had transgressed diplomatic norms.

🇬🇧❌🇮🇱 — British Media reports that British Prime-Minister Rishi Sunak is considering suspending UK arms sales to Israel

➡️ Rishi Sunak is under pressure to publish Government legal advice on the Gaza war as ministers considering blocking arms exports to Israel.

➡️ Charles Falconer, who was the Lord Chancellor under Tony Blair, called on the Government to prove it is not at risk of being complicit in genocide by being transparent about the legal advice it has received.

➡️ His intervention came as a Tory grandee deepened the party’s divisions on Israel by accusing colleagues of “doing the bidding of Netanyahu” because they continue to back the country in its conflict with Hamas.

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🇪🇨❌🇲🇽❗️ — The Conservative Government of Ecuador of Rafael Noboa declared the Mexican Ambassador in Quito, Raquel Serur Smeke, persona Non Grata, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported in a statement.

🇵🇸🤲📃 — Hashemite Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem: More than 65 thousand worshipers performed the dawn prayer on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

🇵🇸🤲📹 — Video shows the moment when thousands of Palestinian Muslims entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the dawn prayers for the last friday of ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Video shows ISF arresting 3 Palestinian men from the Al Aqsa courtyard a time ago