Iran denies that Revolutionary Guards soldiers died during Israel's attack in Syria

A spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps denied reports that 12 of his guards were killed last week during an Israeli air strike on sites in Syria., qualifying them "lies"The Iranian reports said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors violence in Syria, said that in the hours leading up to Monday of last week, 21 people, 12 of them members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards, they died in the Israeli air attack. Six others were Syrian military fighters and the remaining three were non-Syrian citizens, the Observatory said.

Last Sunday, Israel reportedly launched a rare missile attack in broad daylight against Iranian targets in Syria. In response, Iran launched a ground-to-ground missile from Syria to the Golan Heights. from the north that was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system on the Mount Hermon ski run, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The Israeli Air Force launched nighttime retaliatory attacks against Iranian targets near Damascus and against Syrian air defense batteries that fired on Israeli fighter jets, said the Israeli Air Force. # 39; army.

The Iranian spokesman, Ramadan SharifHe said Monday that they had killed 12 members of the group, this would have been visible. "If there had been deaths, we would have celebrated the funeral"

He also denied that the sites attacked by the Israeli attacks are Iranian.

In recent years, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Syria against targets related to Iran, which, alongside its representatives and Russia, are fighting on behalf of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In the midst of an ongoing war of words with senior Iranian officials, Netanyahu reiterated last week a warning to Iran not to establish bases in Syria and promised "continue to fight against [Irán] while he is prime minister"

On Monday, the deputy head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Tehran's strategy was to eliminate Israel from the "world political map".