(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Thousands gathered in Tehran yesterday at a funeral procession for a Revolutionary Guards general killed by Israel, after his commander warned the Jewish state it should "await destructive thunderbolts".
Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi died alongside six fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah group in the attack on Sunday near Quneitra on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights.
Allahdadi's coffin was draped in an Iranian flag as it was carried into a Guards base in southeast Tehran. He is to be buried today in Pariz, a town in the southern province of Kerman.
"The path of martyr Allahdadi is unstoppable and will be continued until the liberation of the Holy Quds (Jerusalem) and obliteration of the Zionist regime," Guards commander Major General Ali Jafari said at a ceremony at the base, according to the official IRNA news agency. The mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and burned two Israeli flags.
Allahdadi died alongside Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of an assassinated Hezbollah commander, and Mohammed Issa, a fighter responsible for the Lebanese group's operations in Syria and Iraq.
An Israeli security source said that one of its helicopters carried out the strike, but a United Nations' observer force in the Golan on raised the possibility that drones may have been used.
On Tuesday, Jafari took aim at Israel, saying "the Zionists should await destructive thunderbolts." "They have in the past seen our wrath," he said, adding the Guards "will continue its support for Muslim fighters and combatants in the region."
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