The Iranian Chief of Staff, Muhammad Bagheri, said that the assassination of Revolutionary Guards Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khadayi will not pass without a response, while the Israeli Channel 13 revealed that Tel Aviv was preparing for an Iranian response to the assassination.
Baqeri added that the assassination was an attempt to cover up the defeats in front of the resistance front, as he put it.
For his part, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that the assassination of Khodayei was a terrorist act that once again revealed the brutality of the Zionist entity.
Qalibaf added that the assassination will not push Tehran to abandon its goals against what he called "the arrogance and the Zionist entity," calling on the security and intelligence services to identify the perpetrators of the assassination of Colonel Khadayi and hold them accountable.
On the other hand, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that Khodayi was responsible for the attempted assassination of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in 2012.
The Israeli Channel 13 also revealed that Tel Aviv is preparing for the possibility of an Iranian response to the assassination of Khodayei in the world and from its northern borders.
And the Israeli radio had said that the colonel in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who was liquidated in Tehran, was involved in what it described as terrorist operations against Israeli targets in Turkey, Cyprus, Colombia and Kenya, as it put it.
And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced - last Sunday - the killing of Colonel Khadayi in front of his house in the capital, Tehran, and the guards said that Khadaei fisherman - who previously participated in the war in Syria - was shot by two gunmen who were on a motorcycle, describing the operation as terrorist and behind it by what he called parties. Affiliated with global arrogance, as he put it.
And the semi-official Iranian Tasnim news agency reported - quoting a source it described as an insider - that Khodaei was "one of the defenders of the shrines", a phrase used by Iranian media to refer to members of the Revolutionary Guards who performed tasks during the conflict in Syria and Iraq, where Tehran confirms the presence of Elements of its armed forces act as advisors.