The news agency reported that, quoting from the SNN website, an adviser to the Revolutionary Guards of Iran (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria last Sunday.
The adviser was identified as Saeid Abyar, although his rank was not disclosed.
Syrian media had earlier reported fatalities from an Israeli air attack targeting locations around Aleppo in northern Syria on Monday morning.
A military source told the Syrian News Agency (SANA) that the Israeli aggression targeted sites in the vicinity of Aleppo just after midnight.
Activists reported that the strikes hit positions of armed groups described as pro-Iranian in the town of Hayyan.
Over the past few years, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Syria as part of a campaign to prevent Iran from establishing a military foothold in the region.
In early April, an Israeli strike targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus, resulting in the death of Iranian military advisors. This prompted an unprecedented retaliatory response from Tehran, targeting Israel.
According to a report, Iranian official media report that a Revolutionary Guard “advisor”, Saeed (Saeid) Abyar was killed in an Israeli air strike near Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria early Monday.
Earlier in the day, Syrian state media reported that an unknown number of people were killed in an Israeli air strike.
Abyar’s rank is not clear, but the his designation as an advisor points to his likely high rank as an officer in the IRGC.
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Iran says its forces in Syria are advisors invited by the Syrian government, while since 2011 it has sent thousands of Iran, Afghan, Iraq and Pakistani militias to fight to defend President Bashar al-Assad against his opponents in the country’s civil war.
This was the second reported attack on the country in less than a week, following a string of air strikes since the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel. Some sources said the targets were affiliated with Iranian-backed forces in the region. Israel usually does not comment about its air strikes in Syria.
The strikes at around 12:20 a.m. early Monday (2120 GMT on Sunday) “led to a number of fatalities and some material damage”, the source said, without elaborating. Independent sources have not reported more details so far.
A devastating air strike on April 1 flattened a building in the Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus, where two senior Revolutionary Guard generals and five other officers died. This led to a massive Iranian missile and drone retaliatory attack against Israel on April 13, which destroyed some two must defended Israeli military air bases and inflicted minimal damage else where, the attack was base on a said precision by Iran to target only non-civilian areas as Tehran sent warning to Tel Aviv prior to the attack.
