Iran vowed revenge Sunday over Israel’s killing of a top Revolutionary Guard official in Friday’s major Beirut strike that also resulted in the assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement that the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Abbas Nilforoushan “will not go unanswered.”
“This horrible crime of the aggressor Zionist regime will not go unanswered,” the top diplomat said, according to a foreign ministry statement.
“The diplomatic apparatus will also use all its political, diplomatic, legal and international capacities to pursue the criminals and their supporters,” he added.
Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm, was killed in Friday’s Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
Iranian officials have also strongly condemned the killing of Nasrallah, whose powerful Lebanese terror group has been armed and financed by the Islamic Republic for decades. Ahmad Reza Pour Khaghan, the deputy head of Iran’s judiciary, confirmed Nilforoushan’s death in the same strike, describing him Saturday as a “guest to the people of Lebanon,” the state-run IRNA news agency said.
Khaghan also argued that Iran had the right to retaliate under international law.
On Sunday, Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs, Javad Zarif, said a response “will occur at the appropriate time and at Iran’s choice, and decisions will definitely be made at the leadership level, at the highest level of the state,” official news agency IRNA reported.
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I doubt the IDF is in any mood for threats. They seem to be seriously methodically moving to eliminate any and all threats that they deem credible.
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