News - Middle East: Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli assassination of a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria, stating that the occupying regime committed the crime out of despair and hopelessness.

Speaking in an interview with the Lebanese Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Saturday, Vahidi stated that the targeted killing points to the utter desolation and anguish that the Israeli regime is already experiencing.

    Brigadier General Seyyed Razi Mousavi, he said, was on “an official mission [in Syria], and was brutally targeted in broad daylight.”

    “Israel has no respect whatsoever for international principles and ethical values.”

The Iranian minister said the assassination of Iranian advisors in Syria “will never weaken the Axis of Resistance; on the country it will contribute to its further growth and empowerment.”

“Israel is caught in a downward spiral and on the path to extinction. It is behaving insanely, and this is accelerating its collapse,” Vahidi pointed out.

The Iranian interior minister noted that the blood of Palestinian martyrs and the slain IRGC commander “will certainly uproot the occupying entity.”

Mousavi was martyred by the Israeli regime on Monday in the Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood of the Syrian capital of Damascus, while on an advisory mission in Syria.

He was one of the companions of Iran's top anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Iran maintains an advisory mission in Syria at the request of the Arab country with the aim of helping Damascus get rid of the foreign-backed militants who have been fighting the democratically-elected government there since 2011.

Earlier in December, Israel killed two Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) military advisors – identified as Mohammad Ali Ataee Shoorcheh and Panah Taqizadeh – in an attack in Syria.

The IRGC announced in a statement at the time that the two officers were martyred against the backdrop of the relentless savagery of the “fake and child-killing” Israeli regime in Gaza.

Source: Press TV