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Iran’s Official News Outlet, IRNA:

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday strongly condemned assassination of prominent Lebanese leader of Islamic Jihad Movement Imad Mughnieh terming it as a blatant example of Israeli state terrorism.

According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hosseini underlined the legitimacy of Lebanese resistance movement against occupiers and called for international move to halt recurrence of such heinous crimes by the Zionist regime.

There is no doubt that the martyrdom of Mughnieh opened a new page in the brilliant history of people’s struggles with the Zionist regime and the free-seeking nations would never forget the sacrifices of such a noble martyr.

Hosseini also expressed condolences to the family of martyr Mughnieh and the great Lebanese nation particularly the country’s resistance fighters on the occasion.

Y-Net:

Iran: Mughniyah killing result of Israeli ‘state terrorism’

Tehran praises assassinated Hizbullah leader as ‘golden page in the history of mankind’s fight against Zionists.’ Washington welcomes death of man on FBI’s most wanted list, says world ‘a better place’ without Mugniyah

Iran on Wednesday accused Israel of assassinating senior Hizbullah leader Imad Mugniyah and said his death was a result of ”state terrorism by the Zionist regime.”

Iranian state television said Mughniyah, a leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group allied to Iran, was killed by a car bomb blast in Damascus, Syria late Tuesday night. Hizbullah officials confirmed his death, without giving details on where it happened, and also pointed fingers at Israel. Jerusalem has denied it had any role in the killing.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office released a statement refuted the accusations, saying that “Israel rejects the attempt by terrorist groups to attribute any involvement (to Israel) in this incident.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini expressed Iran’s ”strong condemnation” of the killing.

”This action is a clear result and example of organized state terrorism by the Zionist regime,” he said, according to the state news agency IRNA. He called on the world to ”prevent the Zionist regime from taking these actions that are a clear violation of international law.”

Hosseini praised Moghniyah, 45, who was believed to have masterminded a string of attacks in the 1980s and 1990s that killed hundreds of Americans and targeted US, Israeli and Jewish interests in Lebanon and elsewhere. He was also on an FBI wanted list with a $25 million bounty on his head, equal to that the US has put for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden.

Hosseini called Mughniyah ”a golden page in the history of mankind’s fight against the aggressive and occupying Zionists.”