NNA - The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced today, Saturday, the killing of an employee at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, after being shot by armed groups in the Syrian capital, according to "Sky News Arabia".

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ismail Baghaei, said that "the martyred employee, Daoud Bitarf, was one of the local cadres working at the Iranian embassy, ​​and was martyred on December 15, when gunmen opened fire on his car in Damascus".

Baghaei offered his "condolences to the Iranian people and the martyr's family", noting that the body of the martyr Bitarf was found in recent days and transferred to Iran.

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