Israel will answer for the assassination in Beirut of the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces), Major General Abbas Nilforoushan. This was stated by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“This is a terrible crime of the aggressive Zionist regime. [имеется в виду Израиля] will never remain unanswered” — Araghchi wrote to the head of the IRGC, Lt. Gen. Salami Hossein In a letter of condolences, his text is quoted by the press service of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, TASS reports.