Milad Bidi, a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in Beirut in an Israeli airstrike on July 30 that targeted Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
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Confirming his death, Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami on August 1 praised Bidi for "his fight against the criminal and occupying Zionist regime," referring to Israel as Iran's enemy.
Bidi is the second member of the Islamic Republic Guard to be killed in Israeli strikes since the April 1 bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
Seven members of the Guard, including two generals, were killed in that attack, and Iran retaliated a few days later by firing drones and missiles at Israel.
Shukr and Bidi were killed hours before Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, a Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, was killed in Tehran.
Iran and its regional allies blamed Israel for his killing, and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iran "has a duty" to avenge the killing of the Hamas leader.
At least 20 members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been killed in attacks allegedly carried out by Israel in Syria and Lebanon since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, i.e. since October last year.
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