Iran’s army chief Major General Ali Abdullahi says the country’s forces and its allied groups are fully prepared to respond “decisively and destructively” to any threat, Al Jazeera reports according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

Speaking on the second anniversary of the Israeli killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Abdullahi said that Nasrallah’s example continues to lead Iran and its allies “steadfastly in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and in all corners of the geography of resistance and the pursuit of justice”.

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