Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Qazanfar Roknabadi once more condemned the assassination of head of the Iranian delegation in charge of developmental projects in Lebanon Hassan Shateri, saying such acts cannot undermine the growing trend of anti-Israel resistance movements in the region.
Such terrorist acts carried out by the Zionist regime and terrorist groups in Syria are not able to confront and weaken resistance movements against Israel in the region, Roknabadi said on the sidelines of a ceremony to commemorate assassination of martyr Shateri at the Iranian embassy in Beirut.

The Iranian mission in Beirut on Thursday confirmed the assassination of Hassan Shateri by the terrorist groups in Syria.

The embassy said in a statement that Hassan Shateri was assassinated by terrorist groups in Syria while he was on his way back to Lebanon from the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Martyr Shateri who was in Aleppo to implement reconstruction and development projects in that city, was assassinated by Syrian terrorists while he was on his way to the Damascus airport to return to Lebanon, the Islamic republic news agency reported.

The Iranian development delegation headed by Martyr Shateri played a major role in reconstructing southern Lebanon after the Zionist regime's 33-day war against the country in 2006.

Martyr Shateri was highly respected by the Lebanese people and officials.

The Lebanese newspaper al-Safir reported on Thursday that martyr Shateri was in Aleppo to study some reconstruction projects in parts of the Syrian city.

Source: Fars