{"id":26346,"date":"2025-11-25T03:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=26346"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:12:04","slug":"irans-revolutionary-guard-vows-crushing-response-to-hezbollah-commanders-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=26346","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard Vows Crushing Response to Hezbollah Commander&#8217;s Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tehran, Iran \u2013<\/strong> The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on Monday that retaliation for the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Haytham Tabatabai is a &#8220;reserved right,&#8221; signaling a potentially devastating response against Israel &#8220;at the appointed time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement, the IRGC asserted that the &#8220;axis of resistance&#8221; and Hezbollah in Lebanon retain the right to avenge the blood of the slain commander, emphasizing that Tabatabai&#8217;s killing in Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs &#8220;will not go unpunished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement further stressed that the resistance axis &#8220;possesses the capability and the will to deter the Zionist enemy,&#8221; underscoring that military options remain &#8220;firmly on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC&#8217;s pronouncement arrives amid escalating regional tensions and open possibilities for renewed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. International warnings are mounting, cautioning against a wider confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Haytham Tabatabai, a high-ranking figure within Hezbollah&#8217;s military wing, was killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a densely populated residential area in southern Beirut. <\/p>\n<p><em>The incident follows a week of intensified Israeli military strikes on targets within Lebanon.<\/em> The Israeli military has claimed to have targeted rocket launch sites and weapons depots belonging to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Iran \u2013 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on Monday that retaliation for the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Haytham Tabatabai is a &#8220;reserved right,&#8221; signaling a potentially devastating response against Israel &#8220;at the appointed time.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26348,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions\/26348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}