Tehran:
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned Sunday that the loss of life of a senior Iranian common, killed alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on Beirut, “is not going to go unanswered”.
Araghchi’s remarks got here two days after the Friday strike on Iran-backed Hezbollah’s bastion within the Lebanese capital that killed General Abbas Nilforoushan, a high commander of the Quds Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps international operations arm.
“This horrible crime of the aggressor Zionist regime is not going to go unanswered,” the highest diplomat mentioned in accordance with a international ministry assertion.
“The diplomatic equipment will even use all its political, diplomatic, authorized and worldwide capacities to pursue the criminals and their supporters,” he added.
Iranian officers have strongly condemned the killing of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah, whose highly effective Lebanese motion has been armed and financed by the Islamic republic for years.
On Sunday, Iran’s vp for strategic affairs, Javad Zarif, mentioned a response “will happen on the acceptable time and at Iran’s selection, and choices will certainly be made on the management stage, on the highest stage of the state,” official information company IRNA reported.
Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate say in all issues of state, has provided his condolences for Nasrallah’s “martyrdom” and declared 5 days of public mourning.
Iranians on Sunday took to the streets of a number of cities throughout the nation to precise their anger on the killings of the Guards’ Nilforoushan in addition to Hezbollah’s Nasrallah.
The secretary of Iran’s Guardian Council, Ahmad Jannati, mentioned Israel will “obtain a forceful reply”, threatening with “the destruction of the Zionist regime,” in accordance with Fars information company.
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