After the suspected Israeli airstrike on an Iranian diplomatic building in Syria, the pro-Iranian Lebanese militia Hezbollah emphasized that the attack would not be without consequences.
"Surely this crime will not pass without the enemy experiencing punishment and revenge," Hezbollah said in a statement on Tuesday. The Israeli enemy still believes that eliminating leaders can stop the people's determined resistance, it said.
According to Tehran, two generals from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in the airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus. Five other members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed in the attack.
Iran is Hezbollah's largest supporter in Lebanon. The Shiite militia fights politically but also violently opn the ground against Israel. It is one of Iran's “Axis of Resistance.”
With its own militia, it primarily controls the south of Lebanon on the border with Israel, Shiite-inhabited districts of the capital Beirut and the Bekaa Valley in the north of the country.
Hezbollah is also active in Syria. There it fights alongside the government troops of President Bashar Al-Assad.
Iran and Russia are al-Assad's main allies in the Syrian civil war.
