The secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has asserted that Iran would “emerge stronger” following a string of “US-backed Israeli assassinations” of its senior military commanders and nuclear scientists, Press TV reported.
“Iran will emerge stronger, and Israel will come to regret its brutality and recklessness,” Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Friday.
The comments came shortly after the regime launched a string of attacks on various residential areas in some Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran.
The aggression that featured targeted killing strikes led to the martyrdom of Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran's Armed Forces, Major General Hossein Salami, chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, commander of the Islamic Republic’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
Veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi, Fereydoun Abbasi, and Dr Abdol-Hamid Minoucher were also among the victims.
Sheikh Qassem described the deadly violence as a “criminal Israeli assault” that was “fully supported by the US administration.”
He defined the prospect of the Israeli regime’s and its main supporter, namely the United States’ coming to rue the aggression as certain, saying the Islamic Republic’s pending response to the atrocities would make the duo lament ever having subjected the country to such acts of deadly aggression.
“The criminal Israeli regime and its tyrannical backer, the United States, will reap nothing but disgrace and defeat,” Sheikh Qassem underscored.
Referring to the victims of the aggression, the Hezbollah leader declared, “Their martyrdom will only reinforce Iran’s strength and resolve.”
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