When Israel flattened Iran’s consulate in Damascus on Monday, killing Tehran’s top generals in the country, it also levelled the assumption that anything is off limits in its growing conflict with Tehran.
Iran will now be forced to respond. In recent months Israel had assassinated a number of its generals and senior commanders in Damascus, but this was the first time it had targeted an Iranian diplomatic mission. Iran’s ambassador in Syria, who was unharmed in the attack, promised a response of “the same magnitude and harshness”.
