SANAA, Jan. 7 (Saba) - The world woke up at dawn on Friday to the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the most difficult figure in the Bank of U.S. intelligence targets, and the Iranian strategic treasure and the architect of its operations outside the territorial borders, the fierce leader who left Iran and the axis of the resistance, has the task of a "harsh response" to the rogue American adventure," as described by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Iran on Friday mourned the passing of "the most powerful security man in the Middle East who is fighting Western influence" as described by the American political and military circles, and the Islamic Republic of Iran declared three days of mourning for "Haj Soleimani" "the shadow man" and "general" as he calls it in the Iranian street.
Soleimani is the fiercest enemy of ISIS, where he participated in the liberation of large areas of the organization in Iraq, the most important of which was the battles that took place in the north of Salah al-Din province, the battle for the liberation of the city of Amerai and the battle to retake Tikrit, the most important city that links Iraq to Mosul and has strategic value, and the battle of Fallujah the liberation of Diyala province in eastern Iraq.
He played a role in organizing military operations in Syria, where he supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for three years, helping him regain areas controlled by ISIS forces.
Soleimani was born in the village of "Qanat-e Malek" in the city of Rabor, Kerman province, where he grew up and was promoted to positions until he was appointed commander of the Quds Force since 1998 to succeed Ahmed Wahidi. It is a division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps responsible for military and clandestine operations outside regional borders.
Soleimani, a "60-year-old" man, has a strong personality and courage that enabled him to step up to the positions of commander of the Thaarullah Corps in Kerman province to become one of the top ten Iranian leaders in iranian military teams deployed on the border and then graduated to the positions to reach the rank of colonel, including a brigade commander of the Qods Force. He was considered one of the possible successors to the post of commander of iran's Revolutionary Guard when General Yahya Rahim Safawi left office.
Soleimani was active in his mission outside the borders where he helped reach a ceasefire between the Iraqi army and the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite leader in Iraq in 2008, and al-Slimani also contributed with a group of Iranian investigators in the search for the assassination of martyr Imad Mughniyeh, the military commander of Hezbollah. Who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus in 2008.
The announcement of the assassination of Soleimani was followed by fiery statements by Iran and leaders and countries of the axis of resistance, where Iran waved that 36 U.S. bases scattered in the Middle East under the fire of Iranian revenge while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised revenge on "criminals" according to the Fars news agency Iranian.
"Soleimani joined his fellow martyrs, but we will avenge him from America with the evil of revenge," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet.
"The act of international terrorism of the United States of America by targeting and assassinating General Qassem Soleimani , the most effective force in the fight against ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, is very dangerous and a stupid escalation." The United States of America bears all the consequences of its rogue adventures." He added.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard spokesman Brig. Gen. Ramadan Sharif also threatened Washington that the response to the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani "will be appalling," "Americans must be assured that the response will be appalling for them to this crime," Sharif was quoted by state television as saying. On Friday.
"The Revolutionary Guard and all the anti-American forces will avenge Soleimani throughout the Muslim world," he said, adding that "the Irgc begins today a new chapter in its confrontation with the enemies."
The repercussions of the targeting of Soleimani and the fear of the resistance reaction prompted the U.S. State Department to call on its citizens to leave iraq immediately, while the Channel "Fox News" said that "U.S. forces in the region enter the state of maximum alert", as quoted by Newsweek sources in The Pentagon said that "Patriot missile launchers in Bahrain have been put on mobilize and get ready.
"Our forces in Iraq are in greater danger tonight than they have been for a long time," U.S. veterans commented.
The Pentagon said the operation was directed by President Trump as a critical defense measure to protect U.S. personnel abroad."
Us President Donald Trump remained silent and simply posted a picture of the U.S. flag on his Twitter account.
Philip Smith, a U.S. expert on armed groups, described Soleimani's assassination as "the largest liquidation ever carried out by the United States, greater than the one in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Osama bin Laden were killed.
The martyr Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force, arrived in Iraq as a guest and left as a martyr and the Green Zone square at Baghdad airport was stained with the blood of the martyr and a companion on his path, deputy chairman of the Popular Mobilization Commission Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was targeted by an American raid that ignited the international scene with the prophecies of a possible Iranian-American collision He began by declaring and calling on Iranian leaders to cancel the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The forces of the axis of resistance intend to teach America a harsh lesson in its adventure in the assassination of General Soleimani, the most disturbing figure of the American leadership and the name present in the assassination boxes since the times of former Us Presidents George W. Bush Jr. and Barack Obama, who refused to be involved in his assassination. Fearing the repercussions of the Iranian response, which is evolving hours after the meeting of the Iranian National Security Council headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to discuss options of response and deterrence.
Iman Mohammed
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