Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations says Hezbollah’s response to the recent Israeli assassination of one of its top commanders will be a much “broader and deeper” attack on targets, Press TV reports.

The mission made the statement in response to queries on the quality of Hezbollah’s retaliation against the illegal entity’s targeted killing of Fuad Shukr, who lost his life alongside several others in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on Tuesday.

“However, the Israeli regime’s attack on Dahieh in Beirut and the targeting of a residential building marked a deviation from these boundaries. We anticipate that, in its response, Hezbollah will choose both broader and deeper targets, and will not restrict itself solely to military targets and means.”

Asked to clarify where these targets might be, the spokesperson stressed that they would be “within” the Israeli-occupied territories.

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