Its supreme leader Iran Ali Khamenei as well as thousands of Iranians attended the funeral of Sayed Razi Mousavi on Thursday (28/12). leader of the Revolutionary Guards held in Tehran.
Ali Khamenei, according to Iranian authorities, was killed by an Israeli missile strike in Syria, Iranian state media reported.
As noted by Iranian state television, Khamenei paid tribute “to the tireless struggle of this martyr and called to be with the guards of God.”
Brigadier General Mousavi, a key commander of the Kotz Force, which is the foreign operations wing and special forces unit of the Revolutionary Guardswas killed by a rocket strike on Monday in southern Damascus.
Tehran blamed it Israel, which was not refuted. Asked about the blow that killed Mousavi, Israel said it “does not comment on foreign media information.”
Mousavi was “one of the most experienced and effective commanders of the resistance front,” said Major General Hossein Salami, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command, the Athens News Agency reported, citing Reuters and AFP.
“Our revenge for the martyr Sayed Razi will be nothing less than the removal of the Zionist regime”Salami added in a televised speech at the funeral, stressing that the deceased had defended the Muslim nation for nearly 33 years.
His death comes amid the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel, Tehran's sworn enemy, and Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian movement backed by the “resistance front”, in which Iran is mainly involved.
“I hope that soon, God willing, the great and honorable Palestinian fighters will eliminate the geographical and political name of this evil and fake regime,” Salami added.
Thousands of people had gathered today to pay tribute to Mousavi in ​​central Tehran's Imam Hussein Square, chanting: “Death to America, Death to Israel.”
Mousavi's body was flown from Syria to the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq yesterday, Wednesday, before being flown to Tehran for burial.
On Monday, an Israeli military spokesman declined to comment on Mousavi's death, but said the military had taken whatever action was necessary to defend the country.
Since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas following its militants' bloody and unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7, Iranian-backed groups have escalated their operations against Israel, while others, including militias in Iraq, threaten US interests.
For years, Israel has carried out strikes against targets it says are linked to Iran in Syria, where Tehran's influence has grown since its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that broke out in Syria in 2011.
Source: News Beast
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