Iran’s military commander says Iran’s final revenge for U.S. assassination of the country’s top commander
Published Date – Sat 20 May 23 at 06:10 AM
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Tehran: Iran’s final revenge for the U.S. assassination of the country’s top commander, Qassem Soleimani, is yet to come, a senior Iranian military commander said.
Hussein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), made the remarks at a commemorative ceremony in the central province of Isfahan, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.
Elaborating on Tehran’s retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Soleimani in January 2020, Salami said Iran fired missiles at the U.S. Ain al-Assad base in Iraq’s Anbar province in the days after Soleimani’s death. Iran threw the first “slap in the face”.
The commander said, “the second slap is nothing more than the gradual withdrawal of the United States from the region,” the commander said, noting that the “third slap” had yet to be delivered, according to Xinhua.
On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military used drones to assassinate Soleimani near Baghdad International Airport. The assassination was condemned by Iran as “state terrorism”.
In January, a senior Iranian judicial official said 94 U.S. citizens had been charged with involvement in the assassination of Soleimani, stressing that no one is immune from prosecution in the case.
