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Iraqi demonstrators lift flags and placards as they rally in Tahrir square in the capital Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2021, to mark one year after a US drone strike killed Iran s revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis near the capital.
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Chanting anti-American slogans, thousands of Iraqis converged on a landmark square in central Baghdad on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike.
Iran-backed militias commemorate Qassem Suleimani at Baghdad s Tahrir Square and airport
Tense times in Iraq as Tehran seeks to show power one year after the killing of its leading general
A person looks at a banner displayed at a commemoration ceremony at Iraq s Baghdad airport on January 2, 2020 to mark the first anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Suleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis in a US drone strike. Reuters
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilisation Forces light candles at the site of the US drone attack on January 3, 2019 that killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani and Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis, leader of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia EPA
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Iraqis criticised parliamentarians on Sunday for commemorating the death of Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis and Iranian General Qassem Suleimani
.
The Middle East came close to
conflict after a US drone strike killed Suleimani and Al Muhandis at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020. Suleimani was designated as a terrorist by the US for supporting proxy groups to form a Shiite axis of power from Iraq to Lebanon.
Many Iranians praised his efforts and viewed him as a hero.
Al Muhandis was a lifelong ally of Iran,
he
Forces.
He rose to fame after the PMF defeated ISIS alongside Iraqi military forces.