Satellite pictures released on Sunday showed the destruction of Iranian targets in the Damascus International Airport following Israel's airstrikes in response to rockets launched into Israel last Thursday.
Israeli satellite image intelligence firm ImageSat International released the photos, some of which show a structure dubbed the "Glass House," in which Iran's Quds Force had been headquartered in the airport. The Quds Force is an external arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards that carried out the rocket attack against Israel last week.
Another image clearly displayed damage to the weapons stores at the airport.
Meanwhile, in an interview on Sunday with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was "ludicrous" to suggest that the recent escalations between Iran and Israel were a result of Iran being emboldened by the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal between it and world powers.
Pompeo said that even before the U.S. withdrew from the agreement, the Iranians "have now fired missiles into an airport where Americans travel each day in Riyadh. They have now fired missiles into Israel. To suggest that somehow the withdrawal from the JCPOA [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name of the nuclear pact] is driving the Iranian conduct that's taking place during the JCPOA ... in Yemen, the rise of Hezbollah, all of those things happened during the JCPOA. Indeed, I would argue they felt they could act with impunity."
