Irans First Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Aref, has vowed that the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike in the Lebanese capital will bring about Israels destruction.
Irans ISNA news agency yesterday, quoted Aref as saying, We warn the leaders of the occupying regime that the unjust bloodshed especially of Hezbollahs secretary general, martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, will bring about their destruction.
Lebanons Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Iran, confirmed yesterday that Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had eliminated him in an air strike on Hezbollahs bastion in Beiruts southern suburbs the previous day.
Aref said that Iran will stand by the Islamic resistance.
President Masoud Pezeshkian offered his condolences over Nasrallahs death and accused the United States of complicity in his killing. A black flag of mourning was hoisted at the Imam Reza shrine in Irans second city of Mashhad, the Tasnim news agency reported.
