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Pence later wrote that Soleimani was plotting "imminent" attacks on U.S. persons, but provided no evidence of this. [95] [96] [97] U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien insisted that Soleimani "was plotting to kill, to attack American facilities, and diplomats, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were located at those facilities". [98]
The attack lasted roughly three hours and was over by 4:00 a.m. [34] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) took responsibility for the attack against the al-Asad Airbase [35] about half an hour after the attack began and announced that it was carried out in response to the killing of Soleimani. The IRGC added that if the U.S. retaliated ...
The People's Mojahedin of Iran, an exiled Iranian militant group, welcomed the killing of Soleimani.Its leader Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the disappeared Massoud Rajavi, stated that the killing is an "irreparable blow for the regime of the mullahs" while she accused Soleimani of being "one of the biggest criminals in Iran's history" and "personally implicated in the massacre of thousands of ...
Two explosions rocked a memorial event for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, killing more than 100 people and injuring at least 140, state media in Iran reported.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Trump’s order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran’s charismatic Gen. Qassem Soleimani, escalating the tension between ...
While Soleimani was the Guard's most prominent general, many others in its ranks have experience in waging the asymmetrical, proxy attacks for which Iran has become known.
On 3 January 2020, General Qasem Soleimani was killed by a United States drone attack in Iraq. Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC. Soleimani held a position of significant influence in Iran, widely considered the second most powerful figure in the country after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As leader of the Quds ...
Since the strike on Qasem Soleimani, newsrooms have debated whether to use the term “assassination” to describe it. Numerous stories, including from the New York Times and NPR, have called the ...