Today Iranian foreign minister Mohamed Javad Zarif sent his condolences to Hezbollah general secretary Hassan Nasrallah on the day the party is burying Mustafa Badreddine. As one of Hezbollah’s top military commanders, Badreddine is believed to have played a role in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing, and then a few months later the bombing at the American embassy in Kuwait, where he was caught and sentenced to death.

The U.N.’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon indicted Badreddine for the 2005 assassination of the former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri. Since 2011, Badreddine has been running Hezbollah’s military operations in Syria, where alongside the Assad regime and its patron Iran, the party of God has waged a campaign of sectarian cleansing, killing hundreds of thousands.