Iran vows to avenge death of Guards’ leader
People carry a mock coffin of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah during a symbolic funeral in Baghdad. Reuters
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that the killing by Israel of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander in Beirut was a ‘horrible crime’ that would not go unanswered.
Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday in which Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah also died.
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“There is no doubt that this horrible crime committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) will not go unanswered,” Araqchi said in a statement addressed to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami.
Earlier on Sunday, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that Iran-alligned armed groups would carry on confronting Israel with Tehran’s help following the killing of Nasrallah, Iranian state media reported.
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