Cowardly Assassination of Arouri Attests to Israel’s Frustration: Velayati
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs, condemned the Israeli assassination of Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon as a testimony to the Zionist regime’s weakness.
In a message on Tuesday, Velayati, who is also the secretary general of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening, condemned the assassination of the senior Hamas figure.
Arouri was assassinated on Tuesday evening in a targeted Israeli drone strike on the Southern Suburb of Beirut.
Velayati said the “unfair and blind-hearted” Israeli assassination of the courageous Hamas commander, who had devoted his life to protecting the sacred causes of Palestine, liberating holy al-Quds and struggling against the arrogance and the Zionist regime, has caused grief.
He said the late Hamas commander and his comrades had opened a front in an area of thousands of kilometers against the world of arrogance, noting that Arouri’s name always rattles the enemies of Palestine and Muslims.
“Such brutal measures and crimes reveal the flimsy Zionist regime’s weakness and frustration. As they (Israelis) have been facing epic resistance shown by the Palestinian combat groups and courageous people at all fronts, specifically since the start of the Al-Aqsa Storm operation, and all of their plots have ended in failure in the battlefield, have now resorted to such cowardly assassinations,” Velayati said.
He underlined that the Palestinian combatants and commanders of the resistance current will not only come to a halt with such Israeli attacks, but also will grow stronger constantly.
“The US and its allies, as the main perpetrators of these crimes in the region, must bear in mind that history won’t forget the ruthless massacre of the defenseless people, including the Palestinian children, elderly and young people, and brave combatants, and that Palestine’s resistance groups and valor and freedom-seeking people will give an appropriate response to those criminals,” he stated.
