Today, Iran marks the third anniversary of the assassination of former Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani.
Tehran announced the indictments of those guilty of collaborating with the Americans in the assassination of Soleimani. According to the Iranian announcement, the defendants who were captured came from Iraq and three or four different countries that were partners in planning and killing Soleimani
The Revolutionary Guards promised to take revenge on Soleimani’s killers as soon as possible. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abulahian pledged to continue working for “the achievement of justice and the punishment of the perpetrators of the American assassination”. According to him, “all the documents of the investigation of the assassination case have been collected and are now only awaiting an official statement from the Iraqi government, that General Soleimani was its official guest at the time of the assassination.”
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The chairman of the legal monitoring committee on the issue of the assassination, Abbas Ali Kahdedai, said that “there are many people who initiated and assisted in the commission of the crime.” Kahdedai added that there are documents that link different countries to the assassination and they will be presented to international forums.
Kadhai accused the US of trying to justify the crime of annihilation: “We will not allow them to escape punishment. Filing the lawsuit in international forums will be a deterrent in the future.” He praised the cooperation on the Iraqi side in collecting the incriminating documents and expressed his desire to establish a joint court for Iran and Iraq with international authority: “By filing the international complaint, we seek to prove that America’s presence in the region is illegitimate and therefore it must issue the its forces immediately from the Middle East.”
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Hossein Salami promised that “we will avenge the blood of the martyr Soleimani, this is an inevitable plan. We will not give up our revenge and will carry it out at the right time and place.”
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said: “The martyr Soleimani was an influential person in all arenas and his steps were unique. He worked to reorganize the resistance forces in the region without discriminating between them on religious or sectarian grounds. He wanted to repel evil from the region. He was a model in the fight against arrogance and terrorism. He is the one who defeated ISIS and broke America’s power in the world. The Americans wanted to take from the nations their identity, but Saint Soleimani worked to build and consolidate the identity of the nations. He was a symbol for all the free people in the world. Not only for the Iranian people but for all of Islam.
“I say to America and the enemies of the Islamic revolution,” Raisi pledged, “just as Commander Soleimani fought with your expansion plan. We will also fight you today. You have lost all the wars and will be defeated in the coming ones as well.”
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani eliminated In an American attack in January 2020 near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq. Abu Mahdi Al-Mohands. The commander of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, the Iraqi Shiite militia loyal to Iran, was eliminated along with him.
The Hezbollah organization will hold a rally at 18:00 for the anniversary of the assassination of the two leaders. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who canceled a speech in recent days due to the deterioration of his medical condition, is expected to speak at the event.
In Tehran, they burned the image of Qasem Soleimani on one of the main roads in the Iranian capital.
The burning of Soleimani’s portrait was carried out right before the commemoration of the third day of his death, following the anti-regime protests that began last September following the death of the 22-year-old activist Mehsa Amini by the chastity guards in Iran. pic.twitter.com/p7e90mqnU9— assaf gibor (@assafgibor) January 3, 2023
The respect that Iran tried to give to Soleimani did not impress the citizens of the country. In Tehran, Soleimani’s effigy was burned on one of the main roads in the Iranian capital. The burning of Soleimani’s portrait right before the third commemoration of his death follows the anti-regime protests that began last September following the death of the 22-year-old activist Mehsa Amini by the modesty guards in Iran.