(Washington Post) David Ignatius - Monday illustrated the Israel Defense Forces' astonishing precision in targeting some of Iran's most toxic commanders at a secret meeting in Damascus. Nearly six months into the Gaza conflict, Israel has achieved tactical successes that are gradually degrading Hamas and deterring its Iranian sponsors. It can conduct "targeted killings" of its enemies, at least aboveground, almost at will. Monday's strike on Brig.-Gen. Mohamad Reza Zahedi, the Quds Force commander in Lebanon and Syria, was a brilliant Israeli show of arms. The Israelis gathered intelligence that he would meet six commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a building adjacent to Iran's embassy in Damascus - and hit them with smart weapons from F-35 fighters. The Quds Force victims were hardly innocent. They had Israeli - and probably American - blood on their hands. Like his mentor, Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by the U.S. in 2020 in a similar precision attack, Zahedi was a commander in Iran's undeclared war against Israel and America.
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