One officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stationed in Syria, was killed in an Israeli strike near Damascus earlier in the day, said the (IRGC).

“At dawn today, Friday, Milad Heydari, one of the IRGC’s military advisors in Syria, was martyred in a criminal attack by the Zionist regime near Damascus,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by state media.

The IRGC vowed to retaliate for the killing of Heydari.

“Undoubtedly, the fake and criminal Zionist regime will receive a response for this crime.”