The Revolutionary Guards Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Corps confirmed the killing of four of its officers who were accompanied by Major General Qassim Soleimani, who appointed the Iranian mentor Ali Khameneh as his successor.

Iranian media reported on the Quds Force that the four officers are Major General Hussein Jaafari, Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari, Major Hadi Tarmi, and Captain Naheed Zamanian.

For his part, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier Ismail Qani, after his promotion to the rank of major general, as the new commander of the Quds Force, and Qani was deputy to Soleimani, and participated in the Iran-Iraq war in the eighties of the last century.

A statement issued by Khamenei's office described Colonel Qani as one of the most prominent leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

In addition to the five Iranian officers, among those killed in the raid by a US plane was the march of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization that includes pro-Iranian factions, and the crowd's Relations Officer, Muhammad al-Jabri, with a total of ten dead.

According to Iraqi security sources, the delegation, which included Soleimani, his companions, and officials of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces was bombed while he was leaving the airport aboard two vehicles belonging to the crowd.

Angry demonstrations
In Iran, a crowd of Iranians protested Friday prayers in front of the United Nations headquarters in the capital, Tehran, to condemn the killing of the commander of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani.

The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for the death of the United States, raising slogans against it and demanding revenge against them, raising pictures of Soleimani and Morsh Khamenei, and chanted "The axis of evil is the United States", while a group of protesters tore up the American flag and set it on fire.

Other crowds demonstrated in front of the home of Qasim Soleimani in the city of Kerman, and voices were heard calling for a strong response to the United States.

Iranian television broadcast pictures of marches that took place in other cities, including Tabriz.