Iran says it has recovered body of general killed alongside Nasrallah 

Tehran, Iran — 

Iran said Friday that it had recovered the assemblage of a Revolutionary Guard wide killed alongside Hezbollah main Hassan Nasrallah successful an Israeli onslaught past period successful Beirut.

"With hard enactment and efforts astir the clock, the assemblage of martyr Abbas Nilforushan has been discovered," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said successful a statement.

"The clip of transferring the assemblage of martyr Nilforushan to the Islamic homeland and the ceremonial and burial plans volition beryllium announced later," the connection said.

Nilforushan, a apical commandant of the Quds Force, the IRGC's overseas operations arm, was killed September 27 alongside Nasrallah.

On October 1, the Revolutionary Guards fired 200 missiles astatine Israel successful retaliation for the sidesplitting of the general, arsenic good arsenic Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh, the governmental person of Iran-backed Palestinian radical Hamas who was assassinated successful Tehran successful precocious July.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed this week that his country's effect would beryllium "deadly, precise and surprising."

Iran has promised to respond if it is targeted by arch-enemy Israel.

In an code to the U.N. Security Council connected Thursday, Iran's imperishable typical to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, said the Islamic Republic "stands afloat prepared to support its sovereignty and territorial integrity against immoderate aggression targeting its captious interests and security."

Iran, helium said, was not seeking "war oregon escalation" but would workout its "inherent close to self-defense afloat successful enactment with planetary instrumentality and volition notify the Security Council of its morganatic response."