Saeed Abiyar, an adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria, died in the attack, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Israel fired back, a US official told CNN, targeting a major Iranian military airbase near the city of Isfahan.
Iran has deployed military advisers to Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since civil war broke out there in 2011.
“The era of strategic patience is over,” said Mohammad Jamshidi, deputy chief of staff to the Iranian president.
Israel contested this, claiming the target was an Iranian military headquarters.
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