FACT - Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy and killed people

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211. Sorry. A building that supports the embassy is not an embassy.

Consulate Vs. Embassy: Key Differences

FUNCTIONS AND ROLES

Embassy: An embassy is the main diplomatic mission of one country in another country’s capital city. It represents the sending country’s government and serves as the highest level of diplomatic representation.

Embassies are responsible for maintaining political, economic, and cultural relations between the two nations. They handle diplomatic matters, issue visas and passports, and provide consular services to their citizens living or traveling in the host country.

Consulate: A consulate is a smaller diplomatic mission, usually located in a major city other than the capital, where the embassy is situated.

Consulates focus primarily on providing services to their country’s citizens in the host country, such as issuing passports, providing assistance during emergencies, and helping with legal and administrative matters. They may also promote trade and economic relations between the two countries and facilitate business exchanges.

https://www.boundless.com/blog/consulate-vs-embassy-whats-the-difference/

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The UN Security Counsel knows the difference:

Briefing Security Council on Reported Israeli Attacks against Iran’s Diplomatic Premises in Syria, Top UN Official Urges Efforts to Prevent Further Escalation

In a meeting urgently convened today following reports of Israeli attacks on Iran’s diplomatic premises in Syria, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council that the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected and further escalation must be avoided.

“The rules-based international order is essential for international peace and security, which this Council is mandated to maintain,” said Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, in his briefing to the 15-member body.

Lethal attacks on Iran-linked targets in Syria have been increasingly attributed to Israel, especially since the current conflict with Hamas in Gaza began on 7 October, he noted. While Israel has rarely claimed responsibility for any of these incidents, its officials have repeatedly acknowledged its military operations in Syria and have suggested that more will occur in the future.

https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15650.doc.htm

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So does WaPo.

An Israeli airstrike hit a building next to Iran’s embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, killing two senior members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian state media reported, a significant escalation in a region that continues to be roiled by the war in Gaza.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/01/syria-iran-embassy-strike-israel/

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Iranian analyst and historian Arash Azzi also knows the difference.

“IRGC leadership who are on the front lines of the states neighboring Israel are high-value targets,” said Azizi, “especially those involved in conducting operations with Hamas and Hezbollah.”

What makes Monday’s strike “escalatory and unprecedented,” Azizi added, is that “the building where Zahedi and his colleagues were hit is owned by Iran, and it’s next to the embassy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/01/syria-iran-embassy-strike-israel/

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see also

What is the difference between an embassy and a consulate?

https://uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/resources-for-u-s-citizens/embassy-and-consulates-general-frequently-asked-questions-faqs/

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So to review, embassies and consulates serve very different missions, embassies are not part of consulates,consulates operate under the direction of embassies, neither embassies nor consulates are the territory of the sending states, and even Iran concedes that the attack that killed the military leadership of a largely Iranian terrorist group did not occur in the Iranian embassy in Damascus.