US, Israel will never achieve ‘vicious goals’ by killing resistance figures: Iran

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the United States, Israel, and their allies will not achieve their “vicious goals” despite the assassination of resistance figures, after senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut.

“We offer our greetings and salutations to high spirits of martyred combatant Ibrahim Aqil and all beloved martyrs of the Path of al-Quds, who lost their lives in the terrorist Zionist regime’s vicious attack against Beirut,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani wrote in a post published on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.

“They were the martyrs of the Path of al-Quds, whose pure blood will accelerate the liberation of al-Quds,” he said.

He added that resistance factions in the West Asia region have become stronger, and have always surprised the enemies despite years of daunting challenges together with martyrdom and injury of their members.

“The Zionist regime, the United States, and their other wicked allies will not achieve their vicious goals despite the martyrdom of resistance figures,” he wrote.

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On Saturday, Israel targeted a residential area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, assassinating a top-ranking Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Aqil.

“The sacred defense against the criminal Israeli regime is now playing out on a new scale and scope across the region,” the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, noting that the fate of Israeli criminals will not differ from that of slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Kan’ani further noted that the US and Israel have failed over the past decades to emerge victorious out of their confrontations with the Axis of Resistance, stressing they are mistaken to think they can finally win the ongoing conflict.

“The enemy, upset and vengeful, continues to repeat its past mistakes, and the outcome, of course, will be even more humiliating this time,” he warned.

Divine victory is definite, and the Army of Islam does not dread the loss of its commanders, officers, and fighters, Kan’ani concluded.

Ibrahim Mohammad Aqil, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, was one of the founding figures of the Hezbollah resistance movement and a prominent resistance leader, playing a crucial role in defending Lebanon and the Axis of Resistance against aggression and occupation.

Aqil held a position within Hezbollah’s highest military authority, the Jihad Council, serving as the assistant to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for operations affairs.

He played an active role in the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah from which Hezbollah emerged victorious after a month of fierce fighting.

Aqil was instrumental in the establishment, development, and leadership of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, a position he held until his untimely martyrdom.

He is the second high-profile Hezbollah leader to be assassinated by the Israeli regime in recent months after Fuad Shukr.

Since the events of October 7 last year that led to an ongoing Israeli genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, Aqil led the Lebanese resistance operations against the Israeli entity, inflicting heavy and severe blows on the regime and its proxies.

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