Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei vowed that the Israeli regime will regret attacking Iran’s consulate building in Damascus.
“We will make them regret committing this crime,” the Leader stressed in a message on Tuesday.
His eminence prayed to God to bestow divine forgiveness and blessings to the IRGC military advisors who were martyred in the Israeli strike.
“The evil regime of Israel will be punished by the hands of our brave men,” the Leader stated.
We will make the Zionists regret this crime of attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria and other crimes like this, by God’s power and strength.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) April 2, 2024
Imam Khamenei lauded General Zahedi, saying he “had been awaiting martyrdom since the 1360s AH [1980s] when fighting in dangerous battlefields.”
“The martyrs haven’t lost anything and have received their reward,” the Leader said, noting that “the grief of losing them weighs heavily on the Iranian nation, especially those who knew them.”
For his part, President Ebrahim Raisi pledged that Monday’s fatal strike will not go unanswered.
In a statement released on Tuesday morning, Raisi said the usurping Zionist regime has brazenly violated international law by committing the terrorist crime of attacking the diplomatic building of Iran in Damascus.
Condemning the “inhumane assault in brazen violation of the international regulations”, the Iranian president said the Israeli regime has resorted to blind assassination attacks after successive defeats and failures in the face of the Axis of Resistance.
On the other hand, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant hinted at the strike, saying that the Zionist entity goal is to “act everywhere, every day to prevent the force build-up of our enemies.”
“We are in a multi-front war, in the offense and defense. We see evidence of this every day, including in recent days,” he said at a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, as quoted by Israeli media.
Source: Iranian and Israeli media
