Tehran protests Israeli attacks, mourns Nasrallah
Thousands of people gathered in Iran's capital Tehran to protest Israeli attacks in Lebanon and commemorate assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The demonstrators gathered in Palestine Square to protest the Israeli attacks that led to the deaths of Nasrallah and Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Carrying flags of Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine, along with Hezbollah banners and posters of Nasrallah, the protesters chanted slogans against Israel and the US.
Demonstrators of all ages, who prayed and recited elegies, called on officials to respond to Israel with the slogan: "Our only word is revenge."
Iran said that it would not let any of Israel's "criminal acts" go unanswered.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said Iran had not yet responded because it was seeking deescalation, not because it was afraid of war.
Referring to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian Guard deputy commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, last week, Kanaani said Israel would "not go unpunished."
The international community has warned that Israeli attacks in Lebanon could escalate the Gaza conflict into a wider regional war.
In the meanwhile a procession took place at Baddawi Refugee Camp in Lebanon’s Tripoli, honoring the three leaders killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s Kola area earlier in the day.
Ambulances carrying the bodies of the martyrs drove inside the camp, followed by crowds of mourners who raised flags of various Palestinian resistance movements, showing solidarity with the fallen leaders.
The strike, which Palestinian militant group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said killed three of its leaders, hit the upper floor of an apartment building, witnesses said. This strike marks the first attack within Beirut's city limits.
