IRGC warns Israel of ‘decisive’ response as martyred officer is laid to rest

A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday warned the Israeli regime of a “strong and decisive” response as one of the Iranian military advisors who lost his life in an Israeli air raid on Damascus last week was laid to rest.

“Zionists know they have received and will receive a harsher blow compared to what they have dealt to us,” Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, IRGC's deputy commander for coordination, said at the burial ceremony of Milad Heidari in Qorveh, western Kordestan province.

“They should be ready for a strong and decisive response,” he stressed.

Heidari and Meqdad Mehqani were martyred in Friday’s aerial assaults conducted by Israel on the suburbs of the Syrian capital.

Heidari, a 32-year-old father of two, was from a village near Qorveh.

“The blood of our martyrs is far more valuable than killing a Zionist [in retaliation]; although this will happen, the main revenge is the liberation of al-Quds,” the IRGC commander said. “We are seeing the collapse and elimination of Israel, and this is certain.”

“The resistance movement will not stop resistance until the elimination of Israel and cleaning up the region from their evil presence,” he added.

The burial ceremony in the martyred officer's hometown was attended by hundreds of people, officials, and military commanders.

Footage from the ceremony showed attendants chanting vociferous slogans against the Israeli regime and the US.

UN envoy: Iran will take decisive measures to protect its forces, interests in Syria against threats posed by US

Iran’s UN ambassador warned the country will take decisive measures to protect its forces and interests in Syria against any threat posed by the United States.

“The US and Zionists should know that the blood of martyrs Heidari and Mehqani will water the roots of resistance and make the … Revolution stronger,” Maryam Soleimani, Heidari’s wife, told the event.

Meanwhile, Kordestan governor Ismail Zarei-Koosha hailed the massive attendance at the burial ceremony as a manifestation of unity between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the province.

“All of us, Shia and Sunni, will sacrifice our lives for the Revolution,” he said.

Mehqani, 31, will be laid to rest in his hometown in northern Golestsan province on Thursday. 

On Tuesday, a mass funeral ceremony for the two young martyrs was held in Tehran with the attendance of tens of thousands of people.

Iranian political and military officials have vowed a strong response to the latest aggression by the apartheid regime. 

In a Sunday statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani vowed Iran's legal and political response to the Israeli regime’s criminal and aggressive acts.

Iran vows revenge for Israeli attack, says terrorist acts aim to disguise internal disaster

Iran vows a revenge to Israel’s latest crime of killing two Iranian military advisers in airstrikes on Syria.

In a post on his Twitter account on Sunday, government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said the Tel Aviv regime is used to carrying out acts of terror in a bid to divert the public from its internal crises.

“The Zionist regime and other terrorist states have the habit of carrying out terrorist acts abroad at critical times in order to deflect public attention and not let the depth of their domestic problems be revealed,” he wrote. “Terrorist acts will not go unanswered.”

Iran maintains an advisory mission in the Arab country, helping it in the face of foreign-backed terrorism. Back in 2017, the advisory assistance helped Syria vanquish the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh.

Meanwhile, Israel is known as the main supporter of terrorist groups and frequently launches airstrikes on military positions, especially those of the Hezbollah resistance movement that has played a major role in defeating Daesh.

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