An Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, whose Lebanese militant group has been armed and financed by Iran for years.
Nasrallah was killed alongside Normal Abbas Nilforoushan, a high commander of the Quds Power, the IRGC’s international operations arm.
Iran vowed that Nilforoushan’s killing would “not go unanswered”.
Ultimately month’s UN General Assembly in New York, President Masoud Pezeshkian accused Israel of warmongering as Iran exercised restraint.
He advised Tehran had held again retaliation for Haniyeh’s killing, fearing that it might derail US-backed efforts for a ceasefire within the Gaza warfare.
“We tried to not reply. They stored telling us we had been inside attain of peace, maybe in every week or so,” he mentioned.