Iran: Israel killing of IRGC generals won't 'go unanswered'

Iran intends to retaliate against Israel in response to an airstrike that killed two senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps generals in Syria on Saturday, according to a top diplomatic spokesman.

“No action against Iran, its interests, or our advisory forces will go unanswered,” Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Nasser Kana’ani said Monday, per an Iranian media outlet.

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Israel has bombarded Iranian forces in Syria throughout Tehran’s intervention in the Syrian civil war in a bid to preempt Iranian threats to Israel from that northern border. The latest bombardment figures into a wider standoff between Israel's and Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack that ignited the war with Hamas in Gaza.

"Two Syrian fighters working with Hezbollah and two IRGC officers were killed in Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah sites near Sayyida Zeynab,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman told Voice of America. “The two IRGC officers were the target of the Israelis. They struck immediately after the pair went into the Hezbollah site.”

The war in Gaza stands as the most intense and devastating conflict between Israel and an Iranian proxy, as the IRGC has long provided “financing and training” for the terrorists who perpetrated the Oct. 7 attack. And while Lebanese Hezbollah has proven hesitant to join the war, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen used anti-ship missiles and drones to attack three different commercial ships in the Red Sea.

“The Yemeni armed forces renew their warning to all Israeli ships or those associated with Israelis that they will become a legitimate target,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Sunday, per Al Jazeera .

Those attacks “are fully enabled by Iran,” according to the U.S. military officials in the Middle East. “These attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security,” U.S. Central Command said. “The United States will consider all appropriate responses in full coordination with its international allies and partners.”

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Those attacks came just days after Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian praised the Houthis for their bellicose posture.

"Yemen's support for the people of Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank is admirable," the foreign minister said last week in a meeting with the Houthi envoy in Tehran.