DUBAI: Iran‘s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Saturday the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah can be avenged and his path in combating Israel can be continued by different militants.
“(Nasrallah) was not a person. He was a path and a faculty of thought and the trail can be continued,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated in a press release learn on state tv wherein he introduced 5 days of mourning in Iran.
“The blood of the martyr shall not go unavenged,” he stated.
Khamenei, in an earlier assertion issued after the Israeli military stated it had killed Nasrallah, stated: “The destiny of this area can be decided by the forces of resistance, with Hezbollah on the forefront,” state media reported. After Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s demise, Iranian media reported that Common Abbas Nilforoushan, a deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, had died “subsequent to Nasrallah” within the Israeli strikes on south Beirut on Friday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed Nasrallah’s killing partly on the USA, which has lengthy provided Israel with superior weapons.
“The Individuals can not deny their complicity with the Zionists,” Pezeshkian stated in a press release carried by state media.
Iranian international ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani vowed in a publish on X that Nasrallah’s “path can be continued and his holy purpose can be realised within the liberation of Jerusalem“.
In the meantime, two regional officers briefed by Tehran instructed Reuters that Khamenei has been transferred to a safe location contained in the nation with heightened safety measures in place.
The sources stated Iran was in fixed contact with Lebanon‘s Hezbollah and different regional proxy teams to find out the subsequent step after the killing of Nasrallah.
