TEHRAN, Iran — Iran held a funeral Thursday for a high-ranking basic of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria.
Hundreds of mourners accompanied the flag-draped casket of Gen. Razi Mousavi from a central sq. of Tehran to a shrine within the north of the town the place he was buried.
The head of the Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, praised Mousavi and vowed his loss of life can be avenged.
“We will never keep silent in the face of martyrdom of the sons of this nation,” Salami stated. “Our revenge will be tough as always, but a revenge that could compensate for the martyrdom of Seyed Razi is nothing but the removal of Israel from the face of existence.”
Iran doesn’t acknowledge Israel and infrequently requires destruction of the Jewish state.
Salami described Mousavi as an in depth companion of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the top of Iran’s elite Quds Force, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020. He stated Iran additionally would avenge Soleimani’s loss of life and that Hamas’ Oct. 7 assaults in southern Israel that triggered the warfare in Gaza have been an unrelated and impartial motion.
“I officially announce that the Al-Aqsa Storm was and is fully Palestinian. Palestine is capable on its own,” the final stated.
The crowd chanted, “No compromise! No surrender! Battle with America!”
Israel views Iran as its biggest risk due to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program and its help for regional militant teams like Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels in Yemen who’ve focused worldwide transport in what they painting as a blockade of Israel.
Iran insists its regional allies act independently.
Earlier Thursday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed earlier than Mousavi’s casket, state TV footage confirmed. Khamenei provided condolences to household of the final and a bunch of rating officers who have been current within the prayer.
The killing of the final, a longtime adviser of the Guard in Syria, comes amid ongoing fears of the Israel-Hamas warfare broadening right into a regional battle. Iran-backed teams in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have launched assaults on Israel and its allies in help of Hamas.
In current years, Israel has carried out tons of of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of Syria. It sometimes says it’s concentrating on Iran-backed teams which have backed President Bashar Assad’s authorities. Iran stated an Israeli strike earlier this month killed two of its generals.
