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Iran threatens 'will use all options' to respond to killing of IRGC general in Beirut

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Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday threatened Tehran "will use all its options" to respond to the assassination of senior Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed alongside former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut last month. 

Abbas Nilforoushan © INM

Abbas Nilforoushan © INM

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday threatened Tehran "will use all its options" to respond to the assassination of senior Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed alongside former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut last month. 

Nilforoushan’s funeral procession began Monday in Iraq and will continue over the coming days in Iran.

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