Iran vows to retaliate IRGC general assassination by Israel through ‘all capacities’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the country would use all of its capacities to hold Israel to account for the assassination of senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan in Beirut on September 27.

News ID: 5254

Date: 14 October 2024 - 12:04

TABNAK, Oct, 14:  The ministry issued a statement on Monday morning, stressing that the Zionist entity’s notorious record of crimes ever since it was created in 1948 indicates that appeasement towards the regime’s acts of aggression and brutalities emboldens it to get more violent and perpetrate more crimes.

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 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.