Assassination of Iranian officials, commanders exposes enemies’ desperation: Spox

The spokesperson for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the US and Israel are conducting acts of terror against the country’s officials and commanders, not because of the enemies’ power but out of their desperation.

“Assassination of the country’s officials and authorities, as well as a number of commanders of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, does not show the enemy’s power but is rooted in its desperation and malice,” Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said on Friday.

He added that Iranian officials are living like people, unlike the criminal Israeli and American officials who are hiding in shelters and underground facilities due to their lack of ability in the face of the resistance of the brave Iranian nation.

The commander emphasized that the "cowardly" US and Israeli officials and commanders, along with malicious pilots and troops, are under surveillance of the Iranian Armed Forces, who are "firmly determined to continue crushing attacks against enemies."

Shekarchi further said that based on information available to Iran, recreational areas, tourist destinations and leisure centers around the world would no longer be safe for enemies.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of unlawful military aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country. The attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several Iranian civilians, including women and children, as well as military commanders.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.

Shekarchi’s remarks came on the same day that Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the martyrdom of its spokesman Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini in terrorist US-Israeli strikes.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, Minister of Intelligence Esmaeil Khatib and Head of the Basij Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Soleimani Farsani, along with several of his comrades, were also assassinated in US-Israel strikes earlier this week.

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