News - Middle East: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says Israel has gone on an assassination spree against resistance commanders in a desperate effort to prevent its demise.

Qalibaf made the remarks on Sunday, two days after Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, in an airstrike on southern Beirut using American-supplied bunker-buster bombs.

The terrorist act came almost a year into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and deadly aerial assaults on Lebanon.

“The Zionist enemy has not achieved its objectives and it has been defeated [on the battlefield], thus it has begun assassinations to survive and avert its demise,” he said during an open parliamentary session.

“It is not the Zionist regime that has the upper hand, but on the contrary, it has adopted the tactical methods of assassination and psychological warfare in an act of desperation … to compensate for strategic failures.”