Iran Condemns Israel Over Assassination of Hezbollah Military Chief

Iran has strongly condemned Israel for killing Hezbollah’s top military commander, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in an airstrike on Beirut on Sunday.

In a statement on Monday, Iran’s foreign ministry described the attack as a “cowardly assassination” carried out against “the great commander of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance, the martyr Haytham Ali Tabatabai.”

Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah figure to be assassinated by Israel since the November 2024 ceasefire, which aimed to end more than a year of cross-border hostilities.

Tehran said the killing “constitutes a flagrant violation of the November 2024 ceasefire and a brutal breach of Lebanon’s national sovereignty.”

Hezbollah earlier confirmed the death of Tabatabai, a commander who was little known publicly but was among those appointed to lead the group after the war.

Despite the ceasefire, Israel has continued launching strikes inside Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah positions, fighters, and infrastructure.

Iran, Hezbollah’s main ally, has seen its regional influence strained in recent months as the militant group suffers setbacks from clashes with Israel and the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, which previously served as a crucial land route to Tehran.

The blow comes as Iran itself has been hit by Israeli and US attacks on its nuclear facilities during the 12-day war with Israel earlier this year.

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