Important Takeaways:

• Israel beefs up air defenses, calls up troops as Iran payback for Syria strike looms
• Speculation suggests Iran could attack Israel from its own territory rather than through proxies, sparking wider hostilities
• Both Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have vowed that Israel will not go unpunished for the Monday attack on a consular building next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus, which killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ most senior official in Syria, along with his deputy, five other IRGC officers, and at least one member of the Hezbollah terror group.
• Zahedi was reportedly responsible for the IRGC’s operations in Syria and Lebanon, for Iranian militias there, and for ties with Hezbollah, and was thus the most senior commander of Iranian forces in the two countries.
• The IRGC is a US-designated terrorist organization.

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