TEHRAN, Aug. 03 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf has said that the Israeli regime has resorted to assassinating resistance commanders to compensate for its defeats in Gaza and cover up its crimes in the enclave.

The Iranian parliament speaker made the remarks in a message to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday., where he expressed his condolences over Israel’s “cowardly crime” of killing a top-ranking Hezbollah military commander, Fuad Shukr, in an airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on Tuesday.

He added that Shukr has played an important role in mounting resistance against the Israeli crimes in Palestine and Lebanon and his great efforts will remain in the minds of the free people.

He emphasized that Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in Tehran on Wednesday and the continuation of the regime’s war in Gaza once again showed the aggressive and illegitimate nature of Israelis to the world.

“The Zionist regime is conducting terror acts against the commanders of the resistance front to make up for its defeat and cover up its crimes in the Gaza Strip so that it can prevent their support for the oppressed Palestinian people,” the top Iranian parliamentarian said.

Ghalibaf added that the blood of the resistance front’s martyrs will lay the ground for the “liberation of the occupied territories and putting an end to the aggression of this criminal regime.”

Now, Muslim nations are more determined than ever to fight the Israeli regime and avenge the blood of the resistance front’s martyrs, he pointed out.

The speaker of the Iranian parliament further expressed hope that the Muslim world will witness the eradication of Israel as a "cancerous tumor" under the ingenious guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and more fight from Hezbollah and other resistance movements against the regime.

MNA