Iran says will activate ‘all capacities’ to punish Israel for IRGC general assassination
Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Republic will make use of all its capacities to hold Israel to account for the assassination of senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan in Beirut’s southern suburbs late last month.
In a statement released on Monday morning, the ministry once again extended its condolences to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian nation, freedom-loving peoples worldwide, and the top Iranian military adviser’s family.
The Zionist entity’s notorious record of crimes ever since it was created in 1948 shows that appeasement towards the regime’s acts of aggression and brutalities emboldens it to get more violent and perpetrate more crimes, the statement added.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry described the assassination of the top IRGC general as an unlawful act and unforgivable crime, emphasizing that the Islamic Republic will undoubtedly utilize all its capacities to penalize the Zionist regime and hold it to account for the crime.
General Abbas Nilforushan, the Deputy Commander for Operations of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on Friday in Beirut.
General Nilforoushan, a senior commander of the IRGC Quds Force and commander of the IRGC in Lebanon, was pronounced martyred in the Israeli attack that targeted a number of residential buildings in Beirut’s densely populated southern suburb of Dahiyeh on September 27.
He was assassinated along with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The IRGC public relations department announced on Sunday that funeral services for Nilforoushan will be held in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala as well as in Iran’s northeastern holy city of Mashhad on October 14.
Mourners can attend a ceremony in his commemoration at the Imam Hussein (AS) Square in Tehran on October 15.
The martyr will be laid to rest on October 17 following the final funeral service in Iran’s central city of Isfahan.
