Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 22
By Khalid Kazimov
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed sympathy over the deaths of an Iranian army commander and some members of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement who were killed in an Israeli helicopter strike last week.
"At a time when the world is suffering from selective approaches to terrorism and extremism, as well as silence before anti-human crimes and disrespect for religious sanctities; and when state terrorism is being blatantly promoted and supported, the brave acts of devotion which have been carried out by resistance martyrs render a bright scene is defending the truth," the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported him on Jan. 22 as stating in his letter.
An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria on Sunday killed six members of Lebanon 's Hezbollah movement, including the son of the group's late military leader Imad Moughniyah, as well as Iranian General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi who was accompanying their convoy.
Zarif expressed condolences to the Iranian Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), as well as the families of those lost in the event.
"This insane act committed by the Zionist regime, not only does once more reiterate the parallel orientation of the Zionist occupiers with Takfiri terrorists, it also testifies to the weakness and desperateness of the occupiers in the face of the regional nations' resistance," Zarif's letter further read.
"I sincerely hope that the innocent bloods of these martyrs will contribute to resistance fighters' esteem, boost their morale, and guarantee victory," Zarif wrote.
Edited by CN