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Along with Soleimani, four other IRGC officers were also killed: Brigadier General Hossein Pourjafari, Colonel Shahroud Mozafarinia, Major Hadi Taremi and Captain Vahid Zamanian. [143] The remaining five casualties were Iraqi members of the PMF: deputy chairman Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis , chief of protocol and public relations Muhammed Reza al ...
Soleimani was succeeded by Esmail Ghaani as commander of the Quds Force. [168] According to the Iranian Students News Agency quoting the Iraqi Al-Ahd network, there are diverse narratives concerning the drones which killed Soleimani and Abu-Mahdi al-Muhandis). One mentions American drones taking off from Kuwait and entering Iraq, which the ...
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 ...
The Pentagon said that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Trump.
General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the elite Quds force, was killed in a US air strike at Baghdad airport. Everything you need to know about the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US ...
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 ...
Hours after Esper's announcement, in the early morning hours of 3 January 2020, the U.S. conducted a drone strike, killing the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Major General Qasem Soleimani (the second most powerful person in Iran [38]), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis while they were traveling in a convoy near Baghdad International Airport.
Soleimani, who came from Kerman, the regional capital of a province of the same name, was buried in the cemetery after he was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq's capital Baghdad in January 2020.