IRGC Pledges Response to ‘Criminal’ Zionist Regime

Date: 02 April 2023 - 22:07

News ID: ۱۱۳۵۸۴

TEHRAN -- Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday issued a warning to the occupying regime of Israel, vowing retaliation for the martyrdom of two of its military advisers in Syria in an airstrike near Syria’s capital.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s IRIB News reported that an Iranian military adviser injured in the Friday airstrike succumbed to his wounds, becoming the second to fall victim to Israeli aggression.
“The fake and criminal Zionist regime will definitely receive a response for its heinous crime,” the IRGC said a statement following the martyrdom of the second adviser identified as Meghdad Mehghani.
The strike, the Zionist regime’s sixth attack since the beginning of March, martyred Milad Heidari on the suburbs of Damascus on Friday.
According to Syrian news agency SANA, Israeli warplanes entered the Syrian territory from the northern occupied Golan Heights very early on Friday and targeted a facility in the suburbs of Damascus.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani earlier denounce the international community’s failure to adopt appropriate and deterrent measures against the Tel Aviv regime’s acts of aggression on Syria, which target civilian airports and even residential neighborhoods.
“Such an approach has emboldened the regime to continue violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent country and a member of the United Nations, and to persist in committing crimes against its citizens and military forces,” he said.
“The latest Israeli airstrike on Syria is a blatant and repeated violation of international law and principles, a move by the regime to divert attention from internal crises and deep divisions within its society,

as well as a testament to Israel’s dissatisfaction with growing stability in Syria and the recent rapprochement between the war-torn Arab country and world countries,” he added.

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 Israeli regime frequently violate Syrian sovereignty and target military positions.

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 Israeli assaults, urging the Security Council to take action against Tel Aviv’s crimes. The calls have, however, fallen on deaf ears.

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.