Nidal Kabalan’s demand come in series of Facebook posts mourning the senior Republican Guard general and regime military commander in Deir Ezzor province who has been killed by a landmine.
The backlash on his statement pushed the ambassador to delete his statements later.
Syrian activists find consolation in Zahereddin'd death, the man who killed at least 1000 people as the ambassador quoted him as saying.
The notorious general, 56, who gained fame for footages of slaughtering ISIS and rebel fighters in the eastern Syria, has been killed in Huwaijet Saker town as regime army as the regime army and allied forces pushed into the remaining ISIS-held districts east of Deir Ezzor province.
Analysts say the top Assad’s military aide may had been killed by the Syrian regime over Russian advice to get ride of senior commanders who succeeded in mobilising thousands of soldiers and who gained popularity amid pro-regime loyalists.
Zahreddine was commanding a brigade of 7,000 soldiers against Islamic State (ISIS) when he was killed by a landmine.
Few weeks ago, Zahreddine told Syrians refugees they should never return home, such a threat has sparked wide rage on social media that pushed the Syrian regime to ask him refuting his own statement later.
"I beg you don't ever return, because even if the government forgives you, we will never forgive or forget," he said during the aired interview last month.
"If you know what is good for you, none of you return."
He later apologised, saying that he had been referring to IS and rebel fighters who killed Syrian troops.
"I was talking after I had seen the bodies of many Syrian soldiers who had been executed and beheaded and chopped into pieces," he said. "Of course our fellow citizens who have gone abroad are most welcome to return."
He also provoked criticism in 2016 when he was photographed posing next to dead bodies which appeared to have been tortured.
In a lawsuit filed against the Syrian government in 2016 on behalf of the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, Zahreddine was one of several high-ranking officials accused of conspiring to kill her.
Colvin was killed in February 2012 by government artillery while reporting on the war from the rebel-held area of Baba Amr in Homs.
A week after the suit was filed, Assad denied that his forces were involved in killing her.
Reacting to his death on Wednesday, social media users described Zahreddine as everything from a hero to a war criminal. (With Middle East Eye)
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