Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned Israel “pay to” for the death of a senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in an attack in Damascus, the Syrian capital. The chancellor of the Persian country, for his part, assured that “a harsh countdown awaits the Jewish state of Tel Aviv”.
Pro-Iranian Shiite militias intervened in Syria maximum alert following Monday’s Israeli airstrike, in which Razi Moussavi, a senior officer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was killed in the Sayida Zainab area, south of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday.
“The Zionist regime will definitely pay for Moussavi’s crime,” Raisi said in a statement, quoted by the Europa Press news agency.
“This action is undoubtedly another example of the frustration, impotence and inability of the usurping Zionist regime in the region,” the Iranian president said, alluding to the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Iran is an ally and benefactor of Hamasand pro-Iranian militias have attacked Israeli and US targets in the Middle East since the start of Israel’s offensive in Gaza on October 7, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Razi Moussavi, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria. Photo: REUTERSThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects witnesses, said in a statement that after the attack that took the life of Razi Mousavi, “the most prominent Iranian figure killed in Syria in years”in the Sayida Zainab area and other regions close to the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan plateau, “witnessed a state of important military and security alarm“.
“There has been a new deployment of (pro-Iranian) militiamen and the deployment of several checkpoints,” added the observatory, based in the UK and with a large network of collaborators on the ground.
Moussavi, who Iran’s Mehr news agency said was a “major military advisor to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria,” died in a terrorist attack on Monday. an Israeli missile attack against a farm in Sayida Zainab, where four other people were injured.
The NGO recalls that the attacked region had been the target of other Israeli bombings in recent months against Syrian military positions and militiamen of the pro-Iranian Lebanese group Hezbollah, which caused several victims.
Warning about Iran
Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian confirmed this on his platform “Israel must wait for the countdown” of the “harsh” Iranian response, This was reported by the Iranian news agency IRNA.
“This honorable martyr (Moussavi) fought courageously against terrorists for many years together with martyr Qasem Soleimani to ensure the security of Iran and the region,” Abdolahian said, according to IRNA.
Hezbollah, strongly supported by Tehran, is an ally of the Syrian government and has been engaged in intense cross attacks with Israel from southern Lebanon, in support of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas.
Israel has previously attacked targets in the Arab nation, often belonging to Iranian or Lebanese militias allied with Damascus, which it considers a threat to its security.
Since the beginning of 2023, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has counted 70 Israeli attacks against 138 targets on Syrian territory, including ammunition depots, headquarters, centers and vehicles, which caused the death of 116 soldiers, as well wounding another 130.
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