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Residents of Damascus have been sensitive to booming sounds since a suspected Israeli bombardment targeted an Iranian embassy building in the Syrian capital earlier this week, a war monitor reported on Saturday. On Monday, two brigadier generals and five other members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, triggering vows of retribution from Tehran. Israel has not commented on the incident. Residents of Damascus have since been panicked by any powerful sounds, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Righ…