TEHRAN, May 20 (NNN-TASNIM) – A top Iranian military commander, said yesterday that, Iran’s ultimate revenge on the United States, for the assassination of the country’s top commander, Qassem Soleimani, is yet to come.
Hossein Salami, the chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), made the remarks, when addressing a commemoration ceremony in the central province of Isfahan.
Elaborating on Tehran’s revenge for the U.S. assassination of Soleimani in Jan, 2020, Salami said, Iran threw the first “slap” by launching missiles at U.S. Ain al-Asad base, in the Iraqi province of Anbar just a few days after Soleimani’s death.
“The second slap is nothing but the U.S. gradual pullout from the region,” the commander said, noting the “third slap” has not been delivered yet.
On Jan 3, 2020, the U.S. military assassinated Soleimani in a drone strike, near the Baghdad International Airport. The assassination was condemned by Iran as “state terrorism.”
In Jan this year, a senior Iranian judicial official said, 94 U.S. nationals have been charged with involving in Soleimani’s assassination, stressing that, no one will be immune from prosecution in this case.– NNN-TASNIM
