Supporters of the Popular Mobilization in Iraq organized a pause on the occasion of the fortieth killing of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, and commander of the Qods Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Qassim Soleimani, near Baghdad airport early last month.
The participants gathered at the site of the American raid that targeted the engineer and Suleimani chanted slogans against the United States and its president, vowing revenge. They also called on the Iraqi government and parliament to work hard to get the American forces out of the country.
On the occasion of the same anniversary, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Hussein Salami said in Tehran that Soleimani had foiled America's plan to create a new Middle East, adding that the Iranian response to any American or Israeli threat would be harsh, as he put it.
Base targeting
Meanwhile, a military base where US soldiers stationed in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, came under a missile attack Thursday evening, according to Iraqi and American security sources, without specifying whether the strike caused casualties.
The missile attack was the first against al-Qaeda since it was targeted by 30 missiles on December 27, which killed an American, and was the reason for a US-Iranian confrontation in Iraq that culminated in the killing of Engineer and Soleimani in a US strike.