Iran: We Will Not Leave Israel's Criminal Acts Unanswered

Iranians walk next to a poster of late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed with late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah following an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran, 29 September 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians walk next to a poster of late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed with late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah following an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran, 29 September 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Iran: We Will Not Leave Israel's Criminal Acts Unanswered

Iranians walk next to a poster of late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed with late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah following an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran, 29 September 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians walk next to a poster of late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed with late Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah following an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran, 29 September 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Iran will not leave any of "the criminal acts" of Israel unanswered, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday, referring to the killing of Hezbollah's chief and an Iranian Guard deputy commander in Lebanon.
Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also died, Reuters reported.
Israel's intensified attacks against the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and the Houthi militia in Yemen have prompted fears that Middle East fighting could spin out of control and draw in Iran and the United States, Israel's main ally.
"We stand strongly and we will act in a way that is regretful [for the enemy]" Kanaani told a weekly news conference, adding that Iran does not seek war but is not afraid of it.
Kanaani said that Iran is closely following up on matters with the Lebanese authorities, referring to the strikes that killed Nasrallah and Nilforoushan.



Berlin Says Nasrallah Killing Was Israeli Self-Defense

 This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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Berlin Says Nasrallah Killing Was Israeli Self-Defense

 This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut constituted a use of its right to defend itself, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.

"Hezbollah is of course a terrorist organization and it was obviously a meeting of the top leadership of Hezbollah, from which one can assume, even from a distance, that they were planning their further operations," the spokesperson said.

"So in this respect, there are also reasons to believe that the right to self-defense was exercised here," he added.

Asked about the civilian deaths in the incident, the spokesperson said: "Every civilian victim is one civilian victim too many."