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Hundreds Protest in Tehran Over Soleimani Killing
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▶️Hundreds of mourners gather outside the home of the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
👉For Iranians, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.
For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran’s proxy forces, responsible for fighters in Syria backing President Bashar Assad, and for the deaths of American troops in Iraq.
Soleimani survived Iran’s long war in the 1980s with Iraq to take control of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, responsible for the Islamic Republic’s foreign campaigns.
A U.S. airstrike killed Soleimani, 62, and others as they traveled near Baghdad International Airport early Friday morning local time. The Pentagon said President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to take “decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing” a man once referred to by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a “living martyr of the revolution.”
👉For Iranians, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.
For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran’s proxy forces, responsible for fighters in Syria backing President Bashar Assad, and for the deaths of American troops in Iraq.
Soleimani survived Iran’s long war in the 1980s with Iraq to take control of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, responsible for the Islamic Republic’s foreign campaigns.
A U.S. airstrike killed Soleimani, 62, and others as they traveled near Baghdad International Airport early Friday morning local time. The Pentagon said President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to take “decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing” a man once referred to by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a “living martyr of the revolution.”
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