A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has reiterated Iran’s resolve to avenge the blood of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who was assassinated in the capital Tehran in July.
“The revenge is certain and it has been declared multiple times and there is no doubt about it. It must be taken at the right time to be effective,” Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the IRGC’s deputy commander for coordination, said on the sidelines of a ceremony on Saturday.
“The public will hear good tidings about the revenge,” he added.
Haniyeh was assassinated alongside one of his bodyguards in Tehran on July 31, a day after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The assassination occurred against the backdrop of Israel’s gory aggression on Gaza, which has since October last year claimed the lives of nearly 41,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Naqdi censured the Israeli regime’s months-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip and described the US administration as the “sole patron” of the occupying entity’s crimes against Palestinians in the besieged territory.
“More should be done to stop the [Israeli] killing of children and students in Gaza,” Naqdi underlined.