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No choice but to confront ‘fake regime’ of Israel: Iran
Tehran decries assassination of Hezbollah cmdr. as ‘gross violation’ of truce deal
Iran’s top security official on Sunday extended condolences over the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander by Israel, saying that there is no choice but to confront the “fake regime.”
"[Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu continues his adventurism to the point that everyone realizes there is no option left but to confront this fake regime," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani said in a post on X.
His comments came after Israeli regime killed Hezbollah’s top military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai in an air strike on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
Tabatabai was among at least five people who were killed in the attack on an apartment block in Dahiyeh in southern Beirut. Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said the Israeli attack also wounded 28 people.
Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the start of a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending over a year of hostilities between the two sides.
Tabatabai was born in 1968 in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and an Iranian father. He grew up in southern Lebanon and reportedly joined Hezbollah in the 1980s.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the international community to intervene firmly to stop the Israeli attacks on the country.
In a statement earlier on Sunday, Aoun said Lebanon “reiterates its call to the international community to assume its responsibility and intervene firmly and seriously to stop the attacks on Lebanon and its people.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the assassination of the Hezbollah commander, calling it a “gross violation” of the November 2024 ceasefire agreement and a “brutal attack” on Lebanon's sovereignty.
The ministry emphasized the necessity of holding criminal Israeli leaders accountable for “terrorist acts” and war crimes.
The ministry also criticized the United States for its support of Israel, suggesting that this backing has caused the repeated violations of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime.
The Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital is the latest blatant violation of the ceasefire Israel signed with Hezbollah in November 2024, which was intended to end hostilities that had escalated into full-scale war.
An Israeli strike on the Ain al-Hilweh camp near Sidon in southern Lebanon late Tuesday killed at least 14 people.
According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 4,000 people and displaced more than 1.2 million residents across the country since October 2023.