Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei welcomes General Soleimani's family two years after his assassination
Iranian Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei this Saturday, January 1, 2022 in Tehran with members of the family of Qasem Soleimani.
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Iranian officials have cried for revenge on the eve of the second anniversary of the assassination in Baghdad by the United States of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds force of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite army, and of his Iraqi lieutenant, Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, number 2 of Hachd al-Chaabi, an alliance of pro-Iranian Iraqi military groups.
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With our correspondent in Tehran,
Siavosh Ghazi
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei received General Soleimani's family and paid tribute to his memory.
In minutes: Statements in meeting with the family of Martyr General Hajj Qasem #Soleimani, on the second anniversary of his martyrdom in a terrorist attack by the US government pic.twitter.com/4IbPnyKfug
- Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) January 1, 2022
He claimed that despite attacks from enemies of Iran, the spilled blood of General Soleimani prompted the United States to flee Afghanistan, pretend to leave Iraq and allowed the advance of anti-American forces in
Yemen
and Syria.
In recent days, several Iranian military officials have claimed that Iran will continue its actions to avenge the death of General Solemiani, who was killed two years ago in Baghdad in a drone attack launched by the Americans.
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See also The powerful Iranian general Soleimani killed by the United States in Iraq
A few days after the assassination of General Soleimani, Iran retaliated by firing a dozen missiles against an American base in Iraq.
In recent days, Iran has made a show of force by organizing military maneuvers in which sixteen missiles struck and destroyed a full-scale model of Israel's Dimona nuclear site.
Likewise, Tehran
launched a rocket
into space, which was criticized by Western countries.
These actions come as Iran and the great powers are conducting negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. Discussions are progressing
very slowly, in
particular because of Iran's demands.
►Read again: Iran is testing its anti-aircraft missile system in the Natanz region
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