Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has vowed that the Israeli assassination of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforushan, the Deputy Commander for Operations of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), will not go unanswered.
The IRGC said in a statement on Sunday that General Nilforushan was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on Friday in Beirut, alongside Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
“This vicious and cowardly act is another clear sign of the terrorist and criminal nature of the Zionist regime and its well-known supporters,” Araghchi said in a letter to IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami.
“Without a doubt, this horrible crime of the aggressor Zionist regime will not go unanswered,” he asserted, pledging that Iran’s diplomatic apparatus will use all its political, diplomatic, legal and international capacities to pursue “the criminals and their supporters.”