Israel “will not be quiet”, Nasrallah’s assassination will not go unanswered, he said Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchias reported today by Iranian state news agencies.

The region is in a dangerous situation, the Iranian foreign minister also underlined.

For his part, the speaker of Iran’s parliament Mohammad Baker Kalibaf said today that militant groups would continue to confront Israel with Tehran’s help after the assassination of Hezbollah chief Saget Hassan NasrallahIranian state media reported.

An alliance known as the Axis of Resistance, built over decades with Iranian support, includes the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, Yemen’s Houthi rebels and various Shiite armed groups in Iraq and Syria.

Israel announced yesterday, Saturday, that it had killed the leader of Hezbollah in an airstrike on the Lebanese movement’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. Hezbollah confirmed his death, but did not specify how he died.

“We will not hesitate to go to any level in order to help the resistance,” said Kalibaf.

He also warned the US, saying: “The US is complicit in all these crimes and (…) must accept the consequences.”