Iran has repatriated the bodies of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country’s consular annex in Damascus, which Tehran blamed on Israel, AFP cites local media as reporting.

The Guards, including two generals, were killed in the air strike on Monday which levelled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex.

“The bodies of the Iran embassy martyrs arrived at Mehrabad airport” in Tehran, the Isna news agency reported overnight on Wednesday-Thursday. It broadcast a short video of their coffins being carried by a vehicle.

Iran has said that among the dead were two brigadier generals from the Guards’ foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi and Mohammad Reza Zahedi. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Zahedi was the Quds Force commander for Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.

State media said the Guards’ funeral will take place on Friday, coinciding with the annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day, when Iranians plan to march in support of Palestinians and against Israel.

 A billboard displays a portrait of slain Iran’s Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, on April 3 at Palestine Square in Tehran.  — AFP
A billboard displays a portrait of slain Iran’s Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, on April 3 at Palestine Square in Tehran. — AFP

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