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Top Iranian official threatens Israel over Syria strikes

Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says Israel will “regret its crimes,” a day after an airstrike near Damascus attributed to Israel killed three Iranians.

Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2013. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

“Illegal Israeli attacks in the region cannot pass without a response,” he tells Kremlin-controlled broadcaster Russia Today Arabic.

He also threatens that the Hezbollah terror group will attack Israel if it attacks Lebanon.

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