Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns Nasrallah’s death ‘will not go unavenged’

London: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days mourning in his country responding to the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah alongside declaring that his death ‘will not go unavenged’, BBC reported.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Nasrallah ‘a path and a school of thought’, and described his death in Israeli air strike in Lebanon on Friday as "martyrdom of the great Nasrallah.

The outlet reported citing Iranian media that a Iranian Revolutionary Guards general was also killed in Beirut during Israeli attack.

Israel’s military claimed that Nasrallah had ‘the blood of thousands on his hands’, adding that the Hezbollah leader was attacked as he was ‘overseeing imminent attacks."

Many fear that Israeli’s blitzkrieg on Hezbollah killing its leader could spread the war in wider region.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s move in response to Nasrallah’s death will decide if more areas will plunge in the war, which started after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

Seemingly refraining from declaring a war with Iran’s arch-enemy, Ayatollah Khamenei reportedly said: ‘The fate of this region will be determined by the forces of resistance, with Hezbollah at the forefront’.

The outlet reported citing news agency Reuters that Ayatollah Khamenei was shifted to a safer location inside the country.

Whiling confirming Nasrallah’s death on Saturday, Hezbollah refused to comment on Israel’s claim that it had killed Ali Karaki, who is the head of the outift’s Southern Front, along with Nasrallah in the attack on Friday.