News - Middle East: Thousands of people have taken part in the funeral processions for Iranian military advisors, who lost their lives in an Israeli missile strike against the consular section of Iran’s Embassy in the Syrian capital city of Damascus.

The participants carried the victim’s coffins, draped with the national Iranian flag, during a ceremony at the holy shrine of Hazrat Ruqayyah (SA) in Damascus on Tuesday night.

The mourners asserted they will tread the path of the fallen Iranian military figures until the collapse of global arrogance as well as Zionism, as they marked Laylat al-Qadr or the Night of Destiny, the occasion when the Holy Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet of Islam some 14 centuries ago. 

They pledged that Israeli actions will not go unpunished.

The participants also vowed that the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain, as it would further encourage Muslims to vigorously fight for the full liberation of the occupied Old City of al-Quds and performance of mass prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The mourners in the ceremony also emphasized that the Zionist enemy commits its crimes out of desperation, because it has bogged itself down in Gaza quagmire and is looking for a way out of the predicament.

On Monday, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, located next to the embassy building in Damascus’s Mezzeh district.

The attack killed two senior Iranian military personnel who were on an advisory mission to Syria as well as five of their accompanying officers.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi were among the seven martyrs of the terrorist attack.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has vowed that Iran will “punish” Israel and make the evil regime “regret” its crime of assassinating the country's military advisors in Syria.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has also said Israel had resorted to indiscriminate assassinations after back-to-back failures in the face of the resistance, warning that the regime’s latest crime against Iranian military advisers in Syria “will not go unanswered.”

Source: Press TV