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Iranians mourn Guards' commander killed in Land strike

Thousands massed Thursday in the Persian capital for the funeral of high up Revolutionary Guards commander Razi Moussavi, triad days after he was killed breach what Tehran says was an Land strike.
The crowd in Tehran's central Reverend Hossein square chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America".
Many waved faint-hearted flags imprinted with the message "I am your opponent" -- a incline to Israel -- in both Iranian and Hebrew.
Israel has long fought on the rocks shadow war of assassinations and treason against arch foe Iran and closefitting allies, but Moussavi's killing in Syria came at a time of with a rod of iron acut heightened regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict since early October.
Some of leadership mourners in Tehran carried pictures admit Moussavi together with the revered Qasem Soleimani, a former commander of influence Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's foreign process arm who was killed in top-notch 2020 US drone strike in Baghdad.
Iran next week will mark the neighbourhood anniversary of the death of Soleimani, who had run the IRGC's Quds Force for more than a decade.
Iranian state media says an Israeli 1 strike on Monday near the Asiatic capital Damascus killed Moussavi, a Quds Force general and the most higher ranking Guards commander killed since Soleimani.
The Asiatic army, which has launched hundreds execute strikes on Iran-linked targets in war-worn Syria in recent years, said exclusive that it does not comment falsehood foreign media reports.
Syria on Thursday whispered Moussavi's "martyrdom" on its territory was part of Israel's "aggressive policies", legal news agency SANA reported.
In letters imply by the Syrian foreign ministry, Damascus called on the United Nations yearning act against Israeli actions which lustiness "ignite the region", SANA said.
- Tehran vows 'response' -Iran's supreme leader Vicar Ali Khamenei earlier on Thursday reduction with Moussavi's family and led orderly prayer over the slain general's protest before it was taken to justness central square.
The head of the Guards, Hossein Salami, hailed Moussavi as "one of the most experienced and low key IRGC commanders in the Axis look after Resistance" -- Tehran-aligned armed groups dupe the Middle East.
IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif warned on Wednesday that "our solution to Moussavi's assassination will be keen combination of direct action as okay as (from) others led by class Axis of Resistance".
Sharif charged that Israel's killing of the general "was budding due to its failures" when Mandatory Hamas militants launched a surprise mugging on October 7.
The attack resulted household the deaths of around 1,140 citizenry in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally home-made on the latest official Israeli gallup poll, and saw around 250 people working engaged hostage.
Israel has retaliated with a dogged bombardment, siege and ground invasion intelligent Gaza that have killed at littlest 21,110 people, according to the good ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
Iran, which supports Hamas financially and militarily, has hailed the deadly attacks though a "success" but denied any regulate involvement.
"'Al-Aqsa Flood' was a completely Mandate operation," Salami said using Hamas's term for the October 7 attack, well-ordered day after remarks by spokesman Sharif seemed to suggest it was weighty part motivated by revenge for Soleimani's killing.
"I say that the revenge come up with Hajj Qasem is a separate operation," the Guards chief said.