In statements made a day after IRGC adviser Saeed Abyar was laid to rest in Tehran, Salami was quoted by Iranian media warning that Israel would “pay for the bloodshed.”
According to The New York Times, Abyar was part of the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force and had been stationed in Syria since 2012. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 16 other members of pro-Iran groups were killed in the strike, which the war monitor attributed to Israel, “including Syrian and foreign fighters.”
“Israel must wait for a response to the killing of Iranian military adviser Saeed Aviar in Syria,” Salami was quoted as saying by Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency.
In April, Iran fired approximately 300 missiles and drones at Israel, almost all of which were intercepted by Israeli and allied air defenses, following an alleged Israeli strike that killed a senior IRGC general and several high-ranking officers in Damascus.
Israel did not comment on the strike. The country has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Syria since the start of the civil war there, primarily targeting efforts to transfer weapons to Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, or to prevent Iranian fighters from establishing a presence near Israel’s border.
Aleppo, located on the opposite side of Syria from Israel, is further than most previous attacks attributed to Israel, though Israel is believed to have ordered strikes in the area before.
The most recent alleged Israeli strike in Syria took place on May 29, resulting in the death of a girl in the coastal city of Baniyas. According to the Observatory, three Hezbollah members nearby were also killed in a simultaneous strike. Shrapnel from the Syrian interception of an Israeli missile was blamed for the girl’s death.
Alleged Israeli strikes increased following the outbreak of war in Gaza after Iran-backed Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw about 3,000 terrorists cross the border into Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
However, the Observatory noted a slowdown in strikes after the deadly April 1 attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, attributed to Israel, which escalated regional tensions and led to Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel.
Since the day after the Hamas attack on southern Israel, Hezbollah-led forces in Lebanon have been launching near-daily attacks on Israeli communities and military posts along the northern border, claiming to do so in support of Gaza amid the ongoing conflict there.
{Matzav.com}
Take this salami sandwich and throw him in the river.
Salami Baloney
This salami is the son of a pig and a monkey.