Mohammad Ali Jaffari, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has said that the attack by Hezbollah that killed two Israeli soldiers was the “minimum” response to Israeli strike that killed an Iranian and six Hezbollah fighters.

At a conference today called “Jihad Will Continue,” Jaffari told reporters, “Hezbollah’s response to Israel was a minimum response that was given to the Israelis, and I hope this response will be a lesson not to make these mistakes anymore.” He continued, “The response the tyrant Israelis received for their ugly actions, which our brothers in Hezbollah gave them along the Lebanese-Syrian border, was a minimum response.”

Jaffari said that the Israelis knew their “idiotic” actions would be answered and that the Israelis “should await a stronger response not only around their borders but anywhere in the world where Zionist Israelis are.”

On Jan. 28, anti-tank missiles in the disputed Shebaa Farms area, wedged between Lebanon and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, struck an Israeli military convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others. The attack was in retaliation for the Jan. 18 Israeli attack on a Hezbollah convoy in the Golan Heights that killed an Iranian commander and six Hezbollah fighters, including the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a former Hezbollah commander who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008, most likely by Israel.