The Guardians of the Revolutionthe ideological army of Iranwarned on Wednesday that Tehran will respond to the assassination of one of its commanders by Israel with “direct actions” and others carried out by pro-Iran groups in the Middle East.
Mourners carry the coffin of Razi Moussavi, a senior Quds Force commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed on December 25 in an Israeli strike in Syria, during his funeral procession at the shrine of the Imam Ali in the holy city of Iraq. of Najaf, on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Qassem al-KAABI / AFP)
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The Iranian government accused on Monday to Israel of murder in Syria to the brigadier general Razi Mousavia high command of the Qods Forcethe overseas operations branch and elite unit of the Guardians.
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“Our response to the murder of Mousavi It will be a combination of direct actions and others carried out to carried out by the resistance front”declared on Wednesday the spokesman for the Guardians of the Revolution, Ramazan Sharifcited by the local agency More.
“resistance front” is the term used in Iran to encompass the government of Syriato the Hezbollah Lebanese, Palestinian Hamas, to Iraqi groups and to the Yemeni Houthi rebels, close to Iran and opposites to Israel.
In Iraqhundreds of people participated in funeral ceremonies Wednesday in honor of Mousavi in the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
According to Iranian state media, he was targeted on Monday by “three missiles” in the district of Sayeda Zeinabsouth of Damascus.
Asked about the attack, Israel He stated that “he does not comment on foreign media reports.”
In Najafthe participants in the ceremony chanted “North America is the great Satan” and “North America is the enemy of God,” reported an AFP correspondent.
The Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Mohammed al-Sadiqdeclared that the death of Mousavi is “one more crime that is added to the history of crimes of the Zionist enemy”engaged in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The bloodiest war ever experienced Loop broke out when fighters from Hamas They broke into the city on October 7 Israelwhere they killed to 1,140 peoplemostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on Israeli figures.
In the attack, Hamas took about 250 hostages, of whom 129 remain in Gaza, according to Israel.
Israel responded with a relentless bombing and ground invasion, a campaign that has left at least 21,110 dead, mostly women and children, and 55,243 injuredaccording to the Ministry of Health of Loopterritory governed by Hamas.
