(Reuters) – Iran on Friday held funerals for seven officers killed in what gave the impression to be an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Syria this week. The Iranian authorities has vowed retaliation for this unprecedented assault.
State tv confirmed demonstrators holding banners with pictures of these killed and slogans equivalent to “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
The funeral coincided with the annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day, when Iran holds large-scale state-sponsored pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rallies throughout the nation.
According to Iranian media, Ziad al-Nahrah, the chief of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, additionally attended the rally in Tehran.
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Among these killed in Monday’s airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound within the Syrian capital Damascus was one in all Iran’s high troopers, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander within the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). was.
It was the boldest and deadliest in a sequence of assaults which have killed Iranian officers in Syria since December.
Iran has vowed harsh retaliation, elevating fears of an escalation of the battle and prompting the Israeli army to droop furloughs for all fight troops on Thursday, a day after saying will increase in air protection forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Thursday that his nation will hurt “those that hurt us or those that search to hurt us.”
The coffins of two of the slain law enforcement officials had been displayed within the capital Tehran, accompanied by non secular songs of mourning. Some attendees waved Palestinian flags. All seven officers had been scheduled to be buried later Friday.
Iran’s Jerusalem Day rallies are held on the final Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, in help of Palestinians who need East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state in territory captured by Israel within the 1967 battle. It is held yearly.
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