The Iranian government is warning Hezbollah is hellbent on revenge and will likely focus its retribution on civilian targets deeper into Israel following Tuesday’s assassination of Fuad Shukr, the Tehran-backed terror group’s most senior military commander.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed that Israel would receive “a severe punishment at the appropriate time, place and manner” for killing Shukr in Beirut.
The IRG added, in a statement issued Saturday, Hezbollah will no longer restrict its attacks to military locations.
It further noted Tuesday’s strike against Shukr also killed five civilians, and was “supported by the United States.”
A man recites the Koran as Hezbollah officials and relatives of its top commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike. REUTERS Demonstrators lift placards and flags of Palestine at a rally in Rabat on Aug. 3, protesting Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s killing. AFP via Getty Images
In response, the US has deployed additional warships and fighter jets to the region, to help defend Israel against any future Hezbollah aggressions.
On Wednesday, just hours after Shukr’s death, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was also killed by a bomb that’d been smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying two months prior.
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