High-ranking Iranian common is ‘killed in Israeli airstrike in Syria’
- It is claimed that Seyed Razi Mousavi was killed within the airstrike
A high-ranking Iranian common has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria, it has been claimed, as Tehran vows revenge for the assault.
Iranian officers and allied militant teams within the area swore they’d take revenge for the killing however didn’t instantly launch any retaliatory strike.
The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, comes amid ongoing fears of the Israel-Hamas warfare sparking a regional spillover.
Iran-backed teams in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have launched assaults on Israel and its allies in help of Hamas.
Clashes alongside the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel have continued to accentuate, with day by day exchanges of missiles, air strikes and shelling throughout the frontier.
The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, comes amid ongoing fears of the Israel-Hamas warfare sparking a spillover
Smoke billows in Qamishli in northeastern Syria near the Turkish border on December 25, 2023, amid Turkish navy strikes within the space
Iranian officers and allied militant teams within the area swore they’d take revenge for the killing however didn’t instantly launch any retaliatory strike
In the Red Sea, assaults by Houthi rebels in Yemen towards ships they imagine to be linked to Israel have disrupted commerce and prompted the launch of a US-led multinational naval operation to guard delivery routes.
Iran-backed militias in Iraq working underneath an umbrella group dubbed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have additionally launched greater than 100 assaults on bases housing US troops in Iraq and Syria, which they’ve stated are in retaliation for Washington’s help of Israel.
The group claimed an assault on a US base subsequent to the business airport in Irbil in northern Iraq at this time.
A US navy official confirmed the assault and stated it had induced accidents however didn’t present additional particulars.
Israeli strikes killed two different generals earlier this month in Syria.
Israel struck the Sayida Zeinab neighbourhood, positioned close to a Shiite Muslim shrine, Iran’s official information company IRNA and Britain-based opposition warfare monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated.
IRNA described Mousavi as a detailed companion of General Qassim Soleimani, the top of Iran’s elite Quds Force who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
Senior adviser for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sayyed Razi Mousavi, sits subsequent to late Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi stated in an announcement that Mousavi was ‘martyred whereas serving as an adviser for the resistance entrance, defending holy shrines in Syria in addition to safeguarding Islamic beliefs’ after the assault
Neither the Israeli navy nor Syrian state media instantly issued an announcement
Neither the Israeli navy nor Syrian state media instantly issued an announcement concerning the assault.
Israeli officers declined to remark.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi stated in an announcement that Mousavi was ‘martyred whereas serving as an adviser for the resistance entrance, defending holy shrines in Syria in addition to safeguarding Islamic beliefs’.
He threatened that the ‘Israeli regime will certainly pay for this crime’.
Hossein Akbari, Iran’s ambassador to Syria, condemned the killing, saying that Mousavi was in Syria as a ‘formal navy adviser’.
‘(Israel) will certainly get a response to this crime on the proper time and the best state of affairs,’ Mr Akbari stated, talking from Damascus.
Though IRNA didn’t present different particulars concerning the assault, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated the Israeli navy focused Mousavi after he entered a farm within the space, which was allegedly certainly one of a number of places of work for Hezbollah.
The Lebanese militant group, alongside Iran and Russia, has performed a key navy position in conserving President Bashar Assad’s authorities in energy all through the Syrian battle.
Hezbollah in an announcement referred to as Mousavi ‘top-of-the-line of brothers who labored to help the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon for many years of his honourable life’.
Israel has carried out a whole bunch of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of war-torn Syria lately.
It doesn’t often acknowledge its air strikes on Syria. But when it does, Israel says it’s concentrating on Iran-backed group.
