The commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, General Hossein Salami, stated this Friday that Israel will be “buried” in Gazabetween tensions over the death of seven members of that elite military corps in Damascus. “The message of the Resistance is that we will bury the Zionist regime (Israel) in Gaza”said the soldier during a speech on the occasion of ‘Al Quds Day’ (Jerusalem) in favor of the liberation of Palestine.

The so-called Axis of Resistance is an informal alliance led by Tehran, deeply anti-Israel and made up of militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels and the Islamist movement Hamas, among other groups. “We warn that no action by any enemy against the sacred system of the Islamic Republic will remain unanswered,” Salamí assured, in an apparent reference to the death of the revolutionary guards in the attack on the consulate in Damascus. of which Tehran has accused Tel Aviv.

“The art of the Iranian nation is to break the power of empires and demonstrate the truth of faith against the invalidity of disbelief and polytheism,” he added. The soldier has also assured that ““No hegemonic power can hit Iran.”, in an apparent allusion to the United States.

Al Quds Day

Coinciding with Al Quds Day in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched through the streets of the country, a ceremony was held in Tehran funeral for the seven revolutionary guards who died on Monday in an attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Among those killed in the attack was the head of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohamed Reza Zahedi, and his deputy, Brigadier General Mohamed Hadi Haj Rahimi.

In addition, five other officers of the elite military corps and six Syrian citizens were killed. This is the worst blow to the elite military body after the death of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who headed the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard until he was killed by the US in 2020 in a bombing in Iraq.

The supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has assured that Israel will pay for the death of the soldiers: “The evil regime will be punished by our brave men. We will make them repent of this crime and others like it, with the help of God.” In the face of calls for Iranian retaliation, Israel is on “high alert” and ready for “a variety of scenarios.”