Iranian Foreign Ministry says it would exhaust all its relevant capacities towards pursuing the recent assassination of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei,�a member of Iran�s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Colonel Khodaei was assassinated in the capital Tehran at around 4 p.m. local time (1130 GMT) on Sunday when two motorcyclists shot him five times while he was in his car.

In a statement, the IRGC said the assassination was carried out by �counterrevolutionary elements� adding that necessary measures have been taken to identify and arrest the assailant or assailants.



In a condolence message,�Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Khodaei�s martyrdom has proven that the Islamic Republic, which is at the forefront of the global fight against terrorism, continues to be constantly targeted�itself�with �state terrorism� and by �terror masterminds.�

It blasted the �heavy silence and even [instances of] support� provided to the evil phenomenon by some international parties, who bogusly lay claim to contributing to the fight against terrorism and defending the human rights.

�Undoubtedly, the Foreign Ministry would deploy all of its political, legal, and international capacities towards pursuing the atrocity�s case,� in order to punish the perpetrators and hold its other elements, mastermind, and supporters accountable.

The message came a day after Khodaei�s body was put to rest during a ceremony attended by Major General Hossein Salami, the IRGC�s chief commander, and Brigadier General Esmail Qa'ani, the commander of the Corps� Quds Force.

The Nour News website, which is close to Iran�s Supreme National Security Council, has reacted to the assassination in a tweet, describing it as a �miscalculated crossing of a red line that will change many calculations.�

�The masterminds and agents of this crime will pay a heavy price,� it added.

Meanwhile, the Israeli regime's Channel 1 said in a report that the regime had put all of its diplomatic missions across the world on alert following the assassination.




The channel recalled the Zionist regime�s role in the assassination of at least seven Iranian nuclear scientists in the past, apparently suggesting that the terror operation had been a follow-up to the regime�s atrocities targeting Iran.

�Contrary to the previous occasions, where the victims used to be people active in Iran�s nuclear program, this time a ranking member of the IRGC was the target of assassination,� it�said.

The channel noted the cause of Israel's�worry�about the safety and security of its interests across the globe was Tehran�s assertion that the assassination had crossed its red lines.









By PRESS TV