VIDEO - Iran's president sent a condolence letter on Thursday to Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah following the assassination of the Lebanese terror group's top military commander Imad Mugniyah.
"(Mugniyah) was neither the first nor the last victim in the defense of the dignity of the nations, but his death is casts more shame on the Zionists and their supporters," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote in the letter.
"The occupiers of Jerusalem (Israel) must know that these crimes will not compensate for their humiliating defeat during their invasion of Lebanon," he continued to say. "Despite the fact that the Lebanese nation has lost a great commander – there are hundreds of thousands, even millions more Haj Radwan's (Mugniyah's nickname) who possess the same courage and resolve to join the struggle against the occupiers, the terrorists and the uncultured."
Mugniyah, a terrorist mastermind on American and European Union most wanted lists, was killed by a car bomb explosion in Damascus on Tuesday.
Hizbullah said he was assassinated by Israeli agents.
Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also sent a letter expressing his condolences to Hizbullah in which he wrote that "The bloodthirsty Zionist criminals must know that the holy blood of martyrs such as Imad Mugniyah will produce hundreds of martyrs like him and will multiply the resistance to oppression and exploitation."
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki attended Mugniyah's funeral in Lebanon before heading to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad and other top officials in Damascus.
"Mugniyah is a source of pride to all believers; he fought the occupiers and supported the right of self-determination," Mottaki said during the memorial service.
"May his death cast shame on the Zionists' history; the Zionist occupiers should know that they will not achieve their goals."
The purported leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq called in a new posting on a militant website on Thursday for attacks on Israel and the liberation of Palestine, proposing that Iraq's territory be a "launching pad" to seize Jerusalem.
In the 30 minute audiotape, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who heads the Islamic State of Iraq, lashed out at Arab and Palestinian groups - especially the Palestinian Hamas - for failing to liberate Palestine.
News Agencies contributed to the report