Tehran, YJC. The IRGC second-in-command has said that Iran is going to give a proper response to Israel’s recent act in killing one of its military commanders and a number of Hezbollah fighters.
The Islamic Republic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) Deputy-Commander Hossein Salami speaking to Al-Alam TV said
"It will be on our agenda to open a new front in the West Bank. This will go as
part of a recent reality which is going to unravel gradually.”
"But of course, besides reopening
the West Bank front, we will be carrying out a special course of actions as revenge
for what happened,” asserted the military official, apparently in reaction to a
recent Israeli helicopter strike on a Lebanese Hezbollah convoy of top military
officials who were killed along with an Iranian commander while on
reconnaissance mission in the Golan Heights in Syria.
Answering if the revenge will be
carried out by Iranian forces or those of local resistance, Salami stated "The
quality of the action cannot be stated. That is something which we are not
going to announce, but it is something which is going to happen, God willing.”
He also pointed to the past assassinations
of Iran's nuclear scientists which the country blames on Israel and said "You
saw that at a period of time, Zionists would assassinate our nuclear
scientists. But only they know where we responded to their act. We will not announce
anything, they know themselves. After that, they stopped assassinating our
nuclear scientists.”