TEHRAN- Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, has assured that the Zionist regime’s “terrorist and criminal” attacks on Damascus, which martyred five Iranian military advisors, will not go unpunished.

Raisi denounced the heinous assassination of five of Iran’s most eminent advisors by the criminal Zionist regime in a condolence letter on Saturday night.

The message, released by his website, is as follows:

Once again, the criminal Zionist regime, in a terrorist act, openly violated the airspace of Syria and martyred a number of Syrian forces and five military advisors of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who were present in Syria in the form of advisors and guarding the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) Shrines.

Condemning this cowardly assassination, I condole the martyrdom of the honorable advisors of Islamic Iran, Hojatollah Omidvar, Ali Aqazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Saeed Karimi and Mohammad Amin Samadi, to Imam Mahdi (AS), the Supreme Leader and Commander-in-Chief, the Iranian nation, the fighters of the resistance front, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the comrades and families of these high-ranking martyrs.

Undoubtedly, the continuation of such terrorist and criminal actions, which indicate the growing failure of the illegitimate Zionist regime to achieve its evil goals and the depth of desperation and helplessness against the fighters of the resistance front, will not go unanswered by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The recent crimes of the usurping Zionist regime, which are taking place by violating all international treaties and human principles, under the shadow of the support of the domineering countries, America at the head of all of them, and the silence of the world assemblies, are definitely another stain on the black file of all self-proclaimed human rights advocates.

The IRGC advisors were assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the tightly guarded Mezzeh neighborhood, west of the Syrian capital Damascus.

Earlier in the day, the IRGC said that four of its members who were in Syria on a military advisory mission had been assassinated in an Israeli hit on a Damascus residential building. It was announced thereafter that a fifth advisor had passed away from his wounds.

The IRGC named its martyred advisors as Hojjatollah Omidvar, Ali Aqazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Saeed Karimi and Mohammad Amin Samadi.

At Damascus’ request, Iran continues an advisory mission in Syria to assist the war-torn nation in fending off extremists supported by foreign powers who have been battling the country’s democratically elected government since 2011.

Since the onset of its continuing genocide against the Gaza Strip in early October, the Israeli regime has been stepping up the number of bombings on Syria.

Culled from Tehran Times