Iran threatened Israel on Wednesday saying Tel Aviv must be ready for a second “October 7” for what it claimed was the killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi in Syria.
Spokesman of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ramadan Sharif, said in a statement that Israel made a mistake to assassinate Mousavi, adding that “the matter will not pass without a direct and indirect response.”
Sharif said the events of Oct. 7 were a part of revenge operations for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
However, Hamas has reportedly denied the claim that the Al-Aqsa Flood operations were launched to take revenge for Soleimani’s killing.
Soleimani was killed by an alleged American drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020, while Sayyed Reza Mousavi, a senior member of the IRGC, was killed in Syria on Monday, allegedly by an Israeli airstrike. The spokesman said Israel was trying to make the war on Gaza an American-Iranian regional conflict. “The Israelis are seeking to spread conflict in the region because of their strategic defeat.”
Iran’s state-run media described Mousavi as “one of the oldest advisers of the IRGC in Syria.—AN
