"Martyr Shateri tried to reorganize the status of the Lebanese people and therefore his martyrdom is a great loss for them," Larijani told reporters in Tehran after attending a ceremony to honor martyr Shateri on Tuesday.

He said that after the Zionist regime destroyed Lebanon's infrastructures in the 2006 war, people like martyr Shateri made their best efforts to settle the Lebanese people's problems, "therefore the goal of such assassinations is hitting a blow at the Lebanese people".