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Iran blasts Israel’s ‘cowardly’ killing of Hezbollah military chief
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A civil defense worker inspects the damage at an apartment building hit during an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburb of Beirut, on November 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Iran slams Israel over its killing of the Hezbollah military chief, a day after the commander of the Iran-backed terror group was targeted with a strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
“The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the cowardly assassination of the great commander of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance, the martyr Haytham Ali Tabatabai,” the Iranian foreign ministry says in a statement.
Tabatabai was considered second only to Secretary-General Naim Qassem in the terror group’s command structure.
Hezbollah eulogized him as a “great Jihadi commander.” It said Tabatabai “dedicated his life to the resistance” and “was among the leaders who laid the foundation” for it.
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