Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, the newly appointed commander of Iran’s Quds Force, reads the will of Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US air strike at Baghdad Airport, during the forty day memorial at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran February 13, 2020. Photo: Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS.
The US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike.
The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2020. Washington had accused him of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on US forces in the region.