TEHRAN -- Tens of thousands of mourners on Tuesday poured to the streets here to pay their homage to two military advisers of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), martyred in an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital last week.
The massive ceremony started in the morning, with the mourners carrying the coffins of Milad Heidari and Meqdad Mehqani, draped in the Iranian flag, on their shoulders.
Chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hussein Salami, commander of IRGC Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani, and many other high-ranking Iranian officials were in attendance.
The IRGC military advisers were martyred in aerial assaults conducted by the occupying regime of Israel on Damascus suburbs Friday.
Heidari, a 32-year-old father of two, was from Kurdistan province. He was living in Tehran’s Qarchak county. Mehqani, 31, later succumbed to his injuries he sustained during the Israeli attack. He was from Golestan province and had a two-year-old son.
Iran maintains an advisory mission in the Arab country, helping it in the face of foreign-backed terrorism. Back in 2017, the advisory assistance helped Syria vanquish the takfiri terrorist group of Daesh.
First Vice President Muhammad Mokhber decried the crime, saying that the air raid was a flagrant violation of international law.
Known as one of the main supporters of terrorist groups that have battled the government of President Bashar al-Assad since foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria in early 2011, the Zionist regime frequently violates Syrian sovereignty and conducts attacks in the Arab country.
The targets usually include residential buildings. Military positions especially those of the Hezbollah resistance movement, which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists, are also frequently hit by Israeli strikes.
The occupying regime of Israel largely remains silent about the attacks. Damascus has repeatedly complained to the UN over the assaults, urging the Security Council to take action against Tel Aviv’s crimes. The calls have, however, fallen on deaf ears.