(MENAFN) Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said his country is committed to punishing Israel for the recent airstrikes on the T4 airbase in the Syrian province of Homs which killed seven Iranian military advisors.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's advisory presence in Syria is at the demand of the country's legal government with the aim of fighting the comprehensive threat of terrorism and has had a definite impact on the defeat of this stream in the region," Shamkhani told reporters on Tuesday before leaving Tehran for Russia to participate in a security conference in Sochi.
"When a regime thinks that it is entitled to target counter-terrorism troops in a move that comes with a planned violation of another country's airspace, it should have certainly thought of its repercussions and reactions," he added.
"There will definitely be a punishment of the aggressor but naturally, the time, place and quality of the response to this vicious act depends on the Islamic Republic's will and choice," Shamkhani said.
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