Iran accused Israel on Wednesday of assassinating a top commander of the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah, which is backed by the Islamic republic, the state IRNA news agency said.
Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini "strongly condemned the terrorist operation which led to the martyrdom of Imad Mughnieh", describing it as "a clear example of the organised terrorism of the Zionist regime." "The record of Mughnieh, who had spent a lifetime fighting against usurping occupiers, is a golden page in the history of people's fights against Zionist aggressors," Hosseini said.
The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied that Israel had any involvement in Mughnieh's assassination in a car bombing in Damascus late on Tuesday.