Following the assassination of a senior officer of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly in an Israeli airstrike, the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi said that Israel will "definitely pay the price" for the "crime".
Raisi's government added that it reserved the right to respond to Israel at a time and place of its choosing.
IRGC advisor in Syria Sayyed Razi Mousavi was killed allegedly in an IDF strike near Syrian capital Damascus on December 25.