Tribute to two officers killed in an Israeli raid in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, April 4, 2023. WANA NEWS AGENCY / REUTERS
Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday (April 4th) paid tribute to the two Revolutionary Guard officers killed in an Israeli raid on March 31st in Syria, where Iran supports the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that started in 2011. .
In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in neighboring Syria against positions of the regime, but also against those of Iranian forces and Hezbollah, allies of Damascus and sworn enemies of Israel.
“Down with Israel!”
“Down with Israel!chanted the crowd gathered for the funeral ceremony in a square in Tehran on Tuesday, four days after the bombing that killed Milad Heidari and Meghdad Mahghani, two members of the Islamic Republic’s ideological army.
“We will avenge the blood of martyrs Heidari and Mahghani“said the spokesman of the Guardians, Ramazan Sharif, quoted by the news agency Tasnim. “follow their pathurged the mother of Milad Heidari, one of the two dead officers, addressing the crowd. Tehran”reserves the right to retaliate (…) at the appropriate time and place“, had already warned Sunday the spokesman of the Iranian diplomacy Nasser Kanani.
The two officers were killed in Damascus, the target Thursday and Friday of night air raids blamed by Syria on Israel. Main regional ally of Damascus, Iran has supported the regime of Bashar el-Assad since the beginning of the war in Syria, in particular by deploying military advisers on the ground.