TEHRAN: Iranian President Hasan Rouhani on Friday vowed that Tehran and region’s other ‘free nations’ would avenge Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani’s killing.
“There is no doubt that the great nation of Iran and the other free nations of the region will take revenge for this gruesome crime from criminal America,” he wrote in a message posted on the official website of Iranian president.
Rouhani added: “Without a doubt, this cowardly and vicious act is another sign of the United States’ frustration, frustration and helplessness in the region and the feeling of hatred on the side of regional states towards this aggressor regime who have violated all human principles and norms and international rights with the most inhumane brutality, recording another stigma on the sordid pages of this country.”
Earlier in the morning, Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in the US strike in Baghdad. In the same strike, Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units’s (PMU) second-in-command Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed by the American forces.
Both the commanders were killed in the US helicopter attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an IRGC statement had confirmed on Friday morning.
