January 3, 2020, under the increasingly tense situation of United States and Iran Assassination of Major General 2 Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force Commander Qasim Soleimani slaughter slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam slam The US military successfully completed the killing operation by launching a drone air strike on a convoy moving near Baghdad International Airport. At the same time, the deputy commander of the Iraqi People's Mobilization unit and founder of the Hezbollah Brigade Abu Mahdi Mohandis , four senior Iranian officers and nine passengers, including four Iraqi officers, were also killed at the same time.
Major General Qasim Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and Quds Forces,
background
In October 2019, Soleimani met with members of the Hezbollah brigade in Iraq to discuss future attacks against the United States. Soleimani chose Hezbollah Brigade because he believed the organization had drones that could help rocket launcher targets, so it would be difficult for Americans to spot the organization. Soleimani provided drones to his allies in the fall of that year.
On December 27, the US air force base in Kirkuk Province, northern Iraq was attacked by 30 rockets , a US defense contractor was killed, and four US soldiers and two Iraqi security forces were injured. In addition, the base is based on US personnel involved in the firmly determined action. The United States accused Iran-backed Hezbollah brigade of carrying out the attack. An anonymous U.S. senior official also said that 11 attacks on strongly determined personnel stationed in bases across Iraq had occurred in the two months before December 27, and the United States attributed most of them to Hezbollah's brigade.
months before this operation, Pompeo has discussed killing Soleimani with Trump many times, but has not received support from Trump and his defense team. After the bombing against Hezbollah brigade in late December, Trump held a security meeting at Mar-a-Lago to discuss with security adviser, Secretary of State Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milli, how to respond to Iran's anti-U.S. attacks in Iraq. Killing Soleimani is only one of Trump's many options, but Trump chose this option, probably because he wanted to be more decisive, because in the last incident of Iran shooting down a U.S. drone, Trump suspended the crackdown, resulting in negative reports from the media. Members of Congress and aides who have communicated with Trump also said that Trump also considered the Benghazi incident in 2012.
Former US President Trump
After deciding to assassinate Soleimani, Trump ordered CIA and U.S. intelligence agency to provide Soleimani's whereabouts and found him preparing to hold a meeting with Iraqi militia on a flight from Damascus to Baghdad . The crackdown will be cancelled if Soleimani meets with pro-US Iraqi government officials.
Passing
On January 3, 2020, a US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned reconnaissance aircraft launched an attack on Soleimani's convoy near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, and Soleimani died in an air strike. Also killed were Abu Mahdi Mohandis, deputy commander of the Iraqi People's Mobilization Force.
US MQ-9 "Reaper" U.S. reconnaissance aircraft
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mehdi said at the special meeting of the Iraqi parliament that Soleimani's trip was to visit Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government. In order to ease the tension in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, he made a special trip to convey Iran's reply to Saudi . Iraqi Prime Minister Mehdi was originally scheduled to hold talks with Soleimani on the same day. Unexpectedly, Soleimani was assassinated by the US military as soon as he arrived at , Baghdad Airport.
subsequent
html On November 4, Iran posthumously awarded Soleimani as lieutenant general, and the supreme leader Ali Khamenei announced national mourning for the 3rd, and claimed that the "criminals" who launched the attack would face severe revenge, and appointed Ismail Jani as Soleimani's successor.
htmlOn November 6, the Iranian government announced that Iran suspended the implementation of the fifth phase of the " Comprehensive Agreement on Iran's Nuclear Issues ", and there will be no restrictions on the number of Iran holding centrifuges.
0 The Iranian nuclear issue signed a comprehensive agreement with the foreign ministers and senior EU representatives took a photo
html On November 7, Iranian parliament listed US Department of Defense and US Army as terrorist organization , and passed a bill to provide Iran with US$263 million in funds to strengthen its defense.
Soleimani is regarded as a martyr in Iran. On January 6, Iran also saw a large number of people shouting anti-US slogans at the official funeral for Soleimani in the capital Tehran .
" New York Times " said that "the last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country" was the "revenge operation" during the second world war . The newspaper compared the two operations. During the revenge operation, the US military killed the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy and the Navy General Yamamoto Izuru .
Response
Support
US President Trump said, "The action is to stop war rather than provoke war." Trump congratulated Soleimani on his death, saying Soleimani is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, Iraqis and Iranians.
opposes
domestic
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that U.S. President Trump has not been authorized by Congress to launch a war on Iran, and the United States has a risk of "risk escalation" in killing Iranian General Soleimani. On the afternoon of January 4, 2020, more than 70 cities in the United States, including Washington, DC, New York, etc., held demonstrations to protest the Trump administration's air strikes on Baghdad International Airport, escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. In addition, this incident further highlights the actions of Trump when he was impeached.
