The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, stated on Monday in response to a question about Israel's killing of two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria last week that Tehran will respond to any attacks on its interests in Syria. Kanani mentioned, "No action against Iran's interests and our advisory forces in Syria will go unanswered." Iranian state media reported on December 2nd that two members of the Revolutionary Guard, who were serving as military advisors in Syria, were killed in an Israeli attack, marking the first Iranian casualties announced during the war in Gaza.