Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning to Israel on Wednesday, stating that they or their allied groups would take “direct” action to avenge the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi.
The IRGC general was killed Monday in an Israeli missile strike near the Syrian capital, according to state media, at a time of heightened regional tensions around the war raging in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces, which has allegedly launched hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked targets in war-torn Syria in recent years, said only that it does not comment on foreign media reports.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning to Israel on December 27, 2023, stating that it or its allied groups would take “direct” action in retaliation for the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi. Moussavi was reportedly killed in an Israeli missile strike near the Syrian capital. The Israel Defense Forces did not provide a specific comment on the incident.
The body of Moussavi, a commander in the IRGC’s Quds Force, was taken to Iraq for funeral rites before being buried in Iran on Thursday. IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif indicated that the response to Moussavi’s assassination would involve a combination of direct action and actions led by the Axis of Resistance. Iran Islamic Revolutionary
Sharif asserted that the Israeli killing of the general near Damascus “was likely due to its failures after the ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood'”—referring to the deadly October 7 assault launched by Hamas against Israel.