2024-10-11 18:54:00
THE’Iran announced on Friday that it had found the body of General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed in Lebanon by Israel in late September along with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“The body of martyr Abbas Nilforoushan has been found thanks to continuous efforts,” the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, announced in a statement, specifying that the date of repatriation of the body and funeral will be announced later.
Israel’s response
Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards, was killed on September 27 in Beirut’s southern suburbs along with Nasrallah by an Israeli attack.
On October 1, the Revolutionary Guards indicated that Iran’s launch of around 200 missiles into Israel on October 1 was a retaliatory measure after the assassination of Nilforoushan, Nasrallah and Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in July.
Israel has since vowed to retaliate. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assured that the attack will be “deadly, precise and surprising”, to which Tehran responded that it was “ready”.
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