People attend Mousavi's funeral in the Iranian city of Najaf Alaa AlMarjani/Portal 12/27/2023
The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces willMajor General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, stated that the Death of a highranking Revolutionary Guard officerin an Israeli bombing in Syria, will not go unpunished.
Key military adviser Seyyed Razi Mousavi was hit by rockets fired from Israel on Monday (25), targeting terror facilities in the suburbs of the capital Damascus.
In a letter to United Nations SecretaryGeneral António Guterres, Iran's ambassador to the organization, Amir Saeed Iravani, stated that “Iran reserves its legitimate and inherent rights under international law and the Charter of the United Nations.”, at an appropriate time, that is deemed necessary to respond decisively.”
The US National Counterterrorism Center describes the Revolutionary Guard as “an armed force of the Iranian state whose mission is to defend the revolutionary regime of Iran.”
“It is separate from Iran’s conventional armed forces and includes land, sea and air forces, as well as components such as an internal security militia (the Basij) and an external strike force, the Quds Force.”
The Quds Force is classified as a terrorist organization by the US and accused of using its own intelligence and military capabilities groups in the region Promoting political instability in the Middle East.
“It has supplied Lebanese Hezbollah with advanced military equipment, including air defense systems, coastal defense cruise missiles, longrange missiles and unmanned aerial systems. It also supplies Iraqi Shia militant groups with antiaircraft weapons, armorpiercing explosive projectiles and explosive devices, improvised weapons, rockets, rocketpropelled grenades and UAS [drones]” explains the National Counterterrorism Center.
Former commander of the Quds Force and then commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020in a U.S.sponsored airstrike shortly after leaving Baghdad Airport, Iraq.
beginning of November an Iranian cargo plane known for carrying weapons landed on the outskirts of Damascus.
The plane is owned by Pouya Air, a company that has been the target of US State Department sanctions since August 2014. At the time, a statement said the operator was “a pseudonym of the also sanctioned Iranian airline called Yas Air.” , in 2012.
According to the State Department, the sanctions concerned “acting for or on behalf of the IRGCQF.” [sigla em inglês para Força Quds da Guarda Revolucionária do Irã] for transporting illegal cargo, including weapons, to Iranian customers in the Levant [região onde fica a Síria]”.