Harsh revenge awaits criminals: Gen. Baqeri

Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said the country will show harsh response to those responsible for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who served as the head of Defense Ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND).

According to reports, he blamed the “savage” attack on “terrorists tied to global arrogance and the evil Zionist regime.”

Baqeri said, "The enemies should know that the path opened by the likes of Martyr Fakhrizadeh will never end."

He said “harsh revenge” awaits the terror groups as well as all those who had a hand in the terror attack.

The commander assured the nation that the perpetrators of the terror attack will be pursued and brought to justice.

In a similar message, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami vowed a “harsh revenge and punishment” for those behind the act of terror.

The assassination of the Iranian scientist “was planned and run by the fake, terrorist and infanticide Zionist regime,” the chief IRGC commander added.

Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi also said in a statement that an operation had been launched to identify the terrorist elements complicit in the “brutal crime,” pledging that the Islamic Republic will avenge the martyr’s blood.

In turn, Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, also reacted to Fakhrizadeh’s martyrdom in a tweet, vowing a crushing response to the perpetrator.

“We will come down hard on those who killed Martry Mohsen Fakhrizadeh like thunder and make them regret their deed,” he said.

“In the final days of their allied gambler’s political life, the Zionists are after intensifying pressure on Iran in order to trigger an all-out war,” said Dehqan in a reference to US President Donald Trump’s final days in office.

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