Tehran
Iran’s commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard General Hossein Salami vowed retaliation Friday for the airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran’s Consulate in the Syrian capital that killed seven of the guard’s members.
This came after thousands marched chanting death to Israel and death to America during the funeral procession of the killed officers.
The marches in the capital, Tehran, along with protests in other Iranian cities, came at a time of heightened concerns about possible retaliation by Iran for Monday’s strike that killed 12 people, including four Syrian citizens and a member of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, according to officials.
The protesters in the capital headed to Tehran University where the commander of the powerful Salami gave his speech.
Salami said that no threat will go unanswered in retaliation for Israel’s apparent strike.
The collapse of (the Zionist regime) is very possible and close with God’s grace, Salami said, adding that the U.S. has become wildly hated by the world, especially in Muslim-dominated countries.
He added that Israel’s current survival depended on U.S. support.
The public funeral coincided with Iran’s annual rally Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, a traditional show of support for the Palestinians that has been held on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
State TV live broadcast showed thousands of Iranians in Tehran following the truck carrying the bodies of the two generals and five officers to the cemetery, with some waving flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
