human tide at the funeral of Razi Moussavi, commander of the Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria

Thousands of people attended the funeral in Tehran on Thursday of the commander of the Revolutionary Guards killed Monday in Syria in an Israeli strike, according to state media. Brigadier General Razi Mousavi, a top commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm and elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, was killed in a missile strike Monday, south of Damascus. Tehran accused Israel, which did not deny it.

This death occurs in the middle of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel, Tehran’s sworn enemy, and Hamas, a Palestinian movement supported by the “resistance front», which includes Iran in particular. Thousands of people gathered in central Tehran on Thursday at Imam Hussein Square, chanting “death to Israel“, “death to UNITED STATES”.

The Revolutionary Guards promise a “response to the assassination of Mousavi”

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with the family of Razi Mousavi earlier Thursday. At the funeral, Revolutionary Guards leader Hossein Salami hailed Mousavi as “one of the most experienced and effective Guardian commanders in the resistance front“. Asked about the strike that killed him, Israel saidnot comment on information from foreign media“.

Israel has intensified its attacks on Syrian territory since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, sparked by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli soil. But since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against its neighbor, mainly targeting forces backed by Tehran, saying it wants to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstep. “Our response to Mousavi’s assassination will be a combination of direct action and others led by the resistance front“, declared Wednesday the spokesperson for the Revolutionary Guards, Ramazan Sharif, quoted by the local agency Mehr.