TEHRAN, Nov 25 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), yesterday vowed a “crushing response” to Israel, over the assassination of senior Hezbollah commander, Haytham Ali Tabtabai.
In a statement on its official news outlet, Sepah News, the IRGC condemned Israel’s “brutal crime,” saying, Tabtabai was targeted in Beirut’s southern suburbs, in a “flagrant and terrorist” act. The statement added that, “the resistance axis and Hezbollah” reserve the right to avenge the killing, and that a decisive response would come “at an appropriate time.”
At least five people, including Tabtabai, were killed and 28 others wounded, in Sunday’s Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in Haret Hreik, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the strike in a statement yesterday, calling the attack a “brutal aggression” against Lebanon’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty.– NNN-IRNA
