People gathered in the southeastern city of Kerman, General Soleimani’s hometown, to pay tribute to the iconic commander.

Similar ceremonies were also held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and other cities, including Esfahan, Yazd, Birjand, Rasht, Shahr-e Kord and Arak.

General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were martyred along with their companions in a US drone strike on January 3, 2020.

The strike near Baghdad International Airport was authorized by then-US president Donald Trump. Days after his martyrdom, the anti-terror icon’s body was transferred to Iran and was laid to rest in his hometown of Kerman.

The two noted anti-terror commanders were tremendously respected and admired across the region for their instrumental role in fighting and decimating the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.

In a Monday statement, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the assassination of the country’s top anti-terror commander is a “glaring example of an organized terrorist act.”

“Indubitable as it is, the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, designed and executed by the United States, constitutes yet another glaring example of an ‘organized terrorist act’,” the statement said.

Meanwhile the third anniversary of the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror Soleimani was marked  in El Salvador.

People gathered in Palestine Square in the Central American country’s capital, San Salvador, on Tuesday to pay homage to General Soleimani, who was assassinated by the United States in 2020.

They carried the flags of Palestine and Iran and also the photos of the late Iranian commander. The participants also burnt the flags of the Israeli regime.

Mass rallies were also held across Iran on Tuesday to commemorate General Soleimani’s martyrdom anniversary.

People gathered in the southeastern city of Kerman, General Soleimani’s hometown, to pay tribute to the iconic commander.

Earlier in the week, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lauded Soleimani’s sacrifices, saying the anti-terror icon empowered, equipped and revived the resistance front against Israel and the US.

The U.S. assassination drew a wave of condemnation from across the world and triggered huge protests in the region, with Iraqi lawmakers approving a bill days after the U.S. attack calling for expulsion of all U.S.-led foreign military forces in Iraq.

On January 8, 2020, the IRGC targeted the US-run Ain al-Asad base in Iraq’s western province of Anbar with a wave of missile attacks in retaliation for the assassination of General Soleimani.

According to the Pentagon, more than 100 American forces suffered “traumatic brain injuries” during the counterstrike. The IRGC said Washington used the term to mask the number of Americans killed during the retaliation.

Iran has described the missile attack on Ain al-Assad as a “first slap”.

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Ayatollah Khamenei stated that General Soleimani preserved and revived the lasting and growing phenomenon (Resistance) against the Zionist regime, the U.S., and other arrogant powers.

Referring to the testimony of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah over the endeavors of Martyr Soleimani, the Leader stressed that Nasrallah’s testimony is a great chapter in understanding the importance of General Soleimani’s efforts in reviving the Resistance.

Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the progress of the Palestinians in confronting the Zionists and the achievements of the Resistance in Iraq, Syria and Yemen and added, “By using the experience of the Holy Defense years and advice of his friends, General Soleimani made the Resistance strong relying on the internal facilities of the countries.”

The Leader also praised the role of Martyr Soleimani in defeating the ISIL terrorist group.

The Leader also emphasized that “one should not speak and act in such a way that the characteristics of the commander sound to be transcendental and unattainable.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader considered the public honoring of General Soleimani and the spontaneous attendance of people in various ceremonies commemorating his memory as a result of his immaculate intentions. He also praised his outstanding characteristics including being courage, faith, responsible, risk-taking, and intelligent.

Ayatollah Khamenei also stressed the need to keep the memory of all martyrs alive and called for using all kinds of art in this regard.

Several IRGC top officials including the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami and the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Brigadier General Esmaeil Qa’ani were also present at the meeting.

He then lauded Brigadier General Qa’ani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and said, “The General’s void has been filled in many cases.”

“The resistance groups consider themselves as the strategic depth of the Islamic Republic and the wings of Islam, and the movement will continue in the same direction,” Ayatollah Khamenei noted.

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“Today, Soleimani is a symbol of hope, self-confidence, courage and the secret of endurance and victory in our region, and as some have rightly said, Martyr Soleimani is more dangerous to his enemies than Commander Soleimani,” the Leader said during a meeting in Tehran on Saturday.

His remarks came as Iran began marking the second anniversary of the US assassination of the top general, with the Leader meeting Gen. Soleimani’s family in Tehran and tens of thousands taking part in ceremonies to pay tribute to the highly charismatic commander.

“The enemies thought that with the martyrdom of Soleimani, Abu Mahdi and his other companions, the work would be over, but today, thanks to that dear blood wrongly spilled, the United States has fled Afghanistan,” Ayatollah Kamenei said, referring to the general’s Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

In Iraq, the Leader said, the Americans “were forced to feign pullout and declare advisory and non-combat role, but our Iraqi brothers must follow this issue with vigilance”.

“In Yemen, the resistance front is advancing; in Syria, the enemy is paralyzed without hope for the future, and in general, the resistance and anti-colonial current in the region is more prosperous, buoyant and hopeful than two years ago.”

Ayatollah Khamenei called Gen. Soleimani an “enduring and everlasting reality”, saying his assassins, like former US president Donald Trump and others like him, will be “among the forgotten of history and will be lost in the dustbin of history – of course, after repaying their crime in this world”.

After the terrorist act, Iran pummeled two US military bases in Iraq with a volley of precision missiles, with the Leader calling it “the first slap”.

The Leader on Saturday touched on the participation of tens of millions of people in Iraq, Iran and other countries in the funeral and other processions held for Gen. Soleimani after his assassination.

“This fact shows that Haj Qassem was and is the most national figure, while the growing influence of his memory and name in the Islamic world proves that the beloved Soleimani was and is the most popular figure in the Islamic world,” he said.

Gen. Soleimani, the Leader said, was “the manifestation of tireless and stunning endeavor” and his sincerity in working for God was the source of the abundant effects of his unmatched efforts.

“The dear commander of the Iranian nation endured the suffering of the struggle for the ideals with all his being and was carefully faithful to his duties towards the Iranian nation and the Islamic community throughout his life,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

“The heroic commander of the Iranian nation,” he added, “had an admirable level of courage and at the same time rationality in all his endless works and activities.”

“With accurate knowledge of the enemy and its possibilities, he would enter the field of combat with strength and tact without the slightest fear and fulfill amazing tasks,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

“He fled from being seen and was not a man of pretense and bluff, and that funeral of tens of millions and the spread of his name and memory in the world was the first reward and divine recompense for his sincerity in the world,” the Leader added.

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Martyr Soleimani and his comrades were assassinated in a drone attack ordered by former U.S. President Donald Trump outside Baghdad International Airport in January 2020.

On Monday, President Ebrahim Raisi said the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Quds Force created a huge capacity in the Muslim world by training Iraqi and Syrian forces.

Raeisi made the remarks in a meeting with members of a special headquarters set up to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Soleimani.

“Haj Qassem managed to train very good forces out of Iraqis and Syrians to defend those countries and fight oppression, and in doing so, he created a huge capacity in the Islamic world,” Iran’s president said.

The president pointed to remarks by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei who noted that General Soleimani should be viewed as a school of thought, saying, “The fact is that Haj Qassem was not a single person but a school of thought, who sent a message to all societies.”

Raisi stated that General Soleimani first developed his own personality and then tried to help others improve theirs.

General Soleimani and deputy commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi Mahdi al-Muhandis, the two iconic figures in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, were assassinated in a U.S. airstrike outside the Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Iranian officials have on several occasions vowed to avenge the death of the two top commanders.

Tehran has denounced the assassinations as “state terrorism” and vowed to end the American presence in the region as the ultimate act of revenge, while urging neighboring Iraq to expel the U.S. forces from the country.

A research revealed in October that a secretive UK intelligence base was likely involved in the U.S. military’s drone strike that assassinated the top Iranian anti-terror commander, among its other controversial targeted killings.

The UK Royal Air Force intelligence base in Yorkshire, Menwith Hill, was likely involved in the U.S. assassination of top Iranian counter-terrorism commander Soleimani, a new report reveals.

Meanwhile on Monday former head of the Israeli military intelligence Major General Tamir Hayman said the Tel Aviv regime was involved in the 2020 assassination of Martyr Soleimani in the U.S. drone strike near the Iraqi capital’s international airport.

“Soleimani’s assassination is an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, is the Iranians,” Hayman said in an interview with the Malam magazine, published by the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center.

Hayman’s remarks mark the first time a top Israeli official confirms Israel’s role in the U.S.-led operation and it once again revealed the dirty nature of the Zionists and the hostilities of them and Westerners towards this “Hero of Hearts”.

Martyr Soleimani was the man who was in charge of fighting and destroying the Daesh and also other terrorist groups in the region and for this reason countries in the region and even in the world owe a lot to him their current peace and security in their countries otherwise the Daesh could continue their terrorist attacks. But due to the bravery of Martyr Soleimani and his comrades, the Daesh group was almost destroyed and he turned into an international icon for peace-lovers.

The world takes hats off for the bravery of such a courageous and peace-loving commander who risked his live just for the sake of the security and peace in the region and ultimately for the world. But unfortunately Western media and statesmen have tried to pain a negative picture of this commander of hearts while they have been distorting the truth.

The truth is that all peace-loving and freedom-seeking people in the world consider Martyr Soleimani as hero of hearts and a man against the savagery of the Daesh group which had threatened the countries with their crimes through the support of some countries.

The history will never forget Martyr Soleimani and he will be remembered for ever as a man who sacrificed his life for the sake of peace and security. Now it is expected his martyrdom anniversary to be commemorated in style by Iranians and all those people around the world who back peace and security and owe their current security to this man and his comrades.

Of course Iranians expect the international bodies to bring to justice those who were involved in this crime and this is the least that the international bodies can do for the sake of showing their impartiality and observing the justice in the world.

Martyr of Solemani has been the man who has fulfilled his vows of defending the country and the region against atrocities and it is time for nation to take its hats off to commemorate his martyrdom in style to show they have not forgotten what he has achieved for the Iranians and other nations.

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“We will continue down the path of Martyr Soleimani with honor and pride, and will stand against the oppressors of the world,” Brigadier General Esmaeil Qa’ani said Tuesday at a conference in Tehran on Iran’s legal and international claims related to the eight-year Iraqi war on Iran during the 1980s.

“The path of resistance is growing stronger every day, contrary to the situation of the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that of the Zionist regime, which has been building a wall around itself for security,” he added.

General Soleimani, the former commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, was assassinated along with his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units, in a U.S. drone strike ordered by ex-president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Qa’ani further said General Soleimani spoke to the enemies with the strongest language and that his greatest weapon was his logic and power of expression.

The anti-terror commander was directly engaged in the fight against the terrorists, he said, adding, “He spoke to everyone in their own language.”

Speaking at the same event, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said General Soleimani had was carrying Tehran’s message to Riyadh at the time of his assassination.

“He was a foreign guest in Iraq. He was carrying a message in response to a [earlier] message of Saudi Arabia and the Iraqi prime minister. He had openly entered Iraq on a civilian passenger plane. He was not hit with an ordinary bomb, but with a bomb that is used to target armored equipment,” he said.

“The bomb that hit General Soleimani’s car can cut 30 centimeters deep into steel…. They committed such a crime to tear their bodies apart,” he added.

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TEHRAN – A ceremony was held on Friday to mark the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was martyred in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020.

The ceremony was attended by IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmaeil Qa’ani and Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi.

Addressing the ceremony, Hojjatoleslam Raiso said that the enemies wanted ISIS to rule in the region and disarm the resistance and introduce American Islam to the people instead of pure Islam and set the region on fire with sedition and conspiracy, adding that ISIS wanted to divert real Islam but they could not because Martyr Soleimani and the companions of the Quds Force, which created a huge capacity in the region, did not allow this.

“This is the awakening of the region from the pure blood of the martyrs. The martyrs who defended the shrine, whose blood was shed on the ground everywhere,” the senior cleric noted.

He added: “The enemy may place some puppets in power in the region, but the awakening cannot be eliminated. They may make sedition in one region, but eliminating ignorance cannot be ignored. Martyr Soleimani considers the Islamic Republic a sanctuary and believes that if this sanctuary remains, other sanctuaries will not be damaged, but if the sanctuary of the Islamic Republic is damaged, all sanctuaries will be damaged, so he for 40 years is defending the sanctuary that has been established with the name of the implementation of religion and religious teachings.”

The head of the judiciary stated that the ideology of resistance has disrupted the current of domination and arrogance. The resistance has done something that has made the enemy desperate. The assassination of Hajj Qassem is a sign of the desperation of the enemy, not a sign of its superior hand and the resistance has destroyed the think tank of infidelity and atheism.

Ayatollah Raisi stated that Gen. Soleimani generated power in the region and that the power that was created in the region should never be vanished, noting that he was looking for solitude to talk to Imam Reza and ask him for help. One of the characteristics and behavior of Gen. Soleimani was supplication, prayer, and divine conduct.

He added: “The creators of ISIS and al-Qaeda thought that the axis of resistance would weaken with the assassination of the hero of the fight against terrorism in the region and the world, but he received the message that the creators of ISIL could not undermine the resistance by assassinating our commanders and Martyr Soleimani. Today, more than ever, there is an insistence on the enemies in the people of the region, and the spirit of Gen. Soleimani has more than ever fueled and awakened the spirit of resistance in the people of the region.”

The head of the judiciary said: “There are signs of tough revenge, but the enemy must wait for tough revenge. They will see tough revenge, and what they have seen so far has been a manifestation of revenge. The Islamic Ummah itself will determine the time and place of revenge, but the enemy knows that life will be more difficult for him from now on, and the punishment of the masterminds and perpetrators of this crime will be manifestations of tough revenge.”

Hojjatoleslam Raisi noted: “The expulsion of the United States from the region will be the revenge of Hajj Qassem. Nobody assumes that someone in the guise of the U.S. president as a murderer has safety. All those who took part in this assassination will not be safe anywhere on this planet.”

Meanwhile Qa’ani warned that people inside the United States may retaliate the assassination of his predecessor General Soleimani.

Addressing the ceremony to mark the first anniversary of General Soleimani’s assassination, General Qa’ani said “it is possible that some people inside your home (the US) would respond to your crime.”

He said after what the U.S. did, they may find people all around the world who would be ready to take vengeance.

In his Friday remarks, General Qa’ani stressed that the U.S. mischievous acts in the region will not change the Resistance Front’s path.

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He said, “The Iranian Army strongly believes in the need to honor that dear martyr and explain and propagate his path,” as an influential personality, who will be remembered as a lasting model for Islamic Iran and other freedom-seekers in the world.

In this regard, he added, “The honorary Order of Sacrifice of the Army will be awarded to Martyr Soleimani.”

Taghikhani hailed the unique role of General Soleimani in the victory of the Resistance Front against terrorist groups, saying the Army will have widespread programs on his martyrdom anniversary to raise awareness about the country’s battle against terrorism.

US terrorists assassinated General Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi, and their companions by targeting their vehicles outside Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

General Soleimani is viewed by the world’s freedom-seeking people as the key figure in defeating ISIL, the world’s most notorious terrorist group, in the Middle East battles.

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The media outlets either official or unofficial or virtual and news websites are today filled with empathy and agreement with Muslims against French President Emmanuel Macron who last week and under the pretext of freedom of expression jumped into defense and support of publishing defamatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by the Zionist French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

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Even if Charlie Hebdo was after weighing the change in the structure of affection to dear Prophet of Islam (PBUH), and even if Macron with his disgraceful support was after discovering the propagation effects and cultural penetration of anti-religion Freemasonry against commitment of Muslims to their religion, today they fully and to the depths of their miserable souls have noticed that Muslims, hundreds of times more united than ever have joined the united rows with a united demand to shut the mouth of a prater like Macron and his disgraceful magazine.

But truly what issue has been able, despite the danger of Coronavirus, to turn this unity, empathy, these tight rows, with such a glory into an indescribable passion, and to make the silenced rancor and ready-for-explosion roar of Muslims to burst due to the foolishness of an obscene and faceless magazine and the support of a lowbrow president, helpless with spread of resistance spirit?

In this analysis I just go through the irreplaceable role of unjust shed of Martyr Qassem Soleimani’s blood that two substantive natures have been able to provide an intellectual, cultural, religious and supportive revolution in the Muslim world which in fact, it has not been left unnoticed. I address first, the impact of the nature of the Islamic Revolution and its special inspiration in drawing up the development of the culture of resistance and justice-seeking for Muslim and freedom-seeking nations in demanding global developments, and injection of hope to the world people towards changing the structure of global power; and secondly the influential role of Martyr Lieutenant General Soleimani and his innocent comrades, who were assassinated defenselessly by the coward White House, in uniting and stabilizing security and inducing the total meaning of monotheistic in the Muslim world.

Today Muslim ummah from the remotest part of the West to the farthest land in the east of the Earth has univocally responded to the call of the Islamic Revolution and created an incredible revolution. Despite those who have hands in thought and pen, this is the blood of martyrs of Baghdad Airport which has gifted this identity to the nations.

Haj Qassem himself both believed in the Islamic Republic whole-heartedly and had been dissolved in the Islamic Revolution. His experience of the Sacred Defense era showed him that Islamic Revolution would only become lasting in its dynamism and move, and not in the silence, isolation and passiveness. He has learned that dynamism of the Islamic Revolution is the main appealing and inspirational factor for the nations. So he did his best to enliven elements of jihad and martyrdom which are the main factors of the Islamic Republic’s progressive and dynamism, and he manifested the dynamism factor in creating the resistance spirit. This active resistance based on insight and jihad blinded the greedy eyes of enemies and made hopeful the truth-seekers and the believers’ front in attracting the Divine victory, victory of the truth front and failure of enemies.

This is Haj Qassem who remained in the trench of combat till the last moment of his life for dynamism of the Islamic Revolution and keeping the flag of jihad and martyrdom hoisting, and he could create a strong array of resistance front against the enemies, and for the first time in Gaza and Lebanon wars made Zionist enemy and its Arab, Hebrew and Western allies drink the bitter poison of defeat.

According to some famous person, Haj Qassem has properly realized that the Islamic Revolution is “Built-by-Khomeini” and “Revived-by-Khamenei”. During his lifetime, Martyr Soleimani became a yardstick for distinguishing the right front from the wrong one. His martyrdom like Ammar’s (one of the most loyal and beloved companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Imam Ali (A) became exposer of the wrong front and it became an evidence for oppression and cruelty of world arrogance, international Zionism and Arab reactionary who have bred in their skirts the tiny grouplets of Daesh and put them in clash with Islam. This recognition with his blood created a religion-oriented belief movement in any part of the world.

Today the slap at Macron and Charlie Hebdo is not limited to a certain current that Westerners accuse it of extremism. With just a glance, one can notice that hot blood of Muslims, inspired by the blood of people like Soleimanis, is boiling against insults to the Prophet and it turns into a global cry.

Today while Macron by his retreat is trying to make the Muslim world believe that he has understood their message forever but roar and anger of Muslims has not cooled down yet. This is the same greatness hidden in the zeal of Muslims that Haj Qassem had realized it and by donating his blood could turn it into a targeted belief for Muslims in order that Freemasonry and Zionist hegemony accepts  their era has come to an end and today it is the era of Islam and mastership of Muslims.

  By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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TEHRAN – The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will definitely avenge the U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, but it will only target those who are either directly or indirectly involved in the murder.

General Hossein Salami’s remarks on Saturday came after a US publication claimed that Iran planned to assassinate the American ambassador to South Africa in retaliation, prompting both Tehran and Johannesburg to dismiss the allegation.

“Our promise of avenging the martyrdom of General Soleimani is definite, serious and real. Mr. Trump, do not doubt our revenge, because it is quite definite and serious,” Gen. Soleimani said at the joint morning ceremony of the General Staff of the IRGC.

But “we will be targeting those who were directly or indirectly involved in the martyrdom of the great general Haj Qassem Soleimani,” he said.

“Do you think we will kill a female ambassador to South Africa in exchange for the blood of our martyr brother?” Gen. Salami added.

When the U.S. assassinated Gen. Soleimani and Iraq’s top anti-terror commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis outside Baghdad airport on Jan. 3, Iran responded five days later with a volley of precision-guided ballistic missiles which pommeled the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq, where US troops were deployed.

Gen. Salami said Saturday, “We are an honorable people and fair, and we take revenge fairly and justly, which is why we did not target your soldiers at Ain al-Asad.”

A flimsy U.S. report on the Politico this week, quoting unnamed officials, claimed that Iran had sought to assassinate US Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks in retaliation for the January assassination of the top Iranian anti-terror commander.

South Africa’s State Security Agency said Friday it had found no evidence to support US media claims that Iran was planning to assassinate Marks.

Iran has categorically rejected the “malicious and baseless” report as part of “hackneyed and outworn methods to create Iranophobic atmosphere” by the U.S.

Gen. Salami on Saturday dealt with the threat, pledging that Iranian missiles are ready to rain down on U.S. troops.

“While you are severely plagued by your own internal problems, you are threatening us with a thousand-fold attack, but when we struck Ayn al-Asad, our assumption and prediction was not that you would not answer, but we were absolutely assuming that you would respond, and that we had hundreds of missiles ready to fire, and if you answered, we would destroy the intended targets.

“It is the same today, and if a hair sheds from an Iranian, we will blow away all your fleece and wool,” the top general said, using a Persian catchphrase.

“These threats are serious and we do not wage a verbal war and put everything to action,” the top general added.

“The Americans should know that we will strike anyone who was involved in the cowardly assassination of General Soleimani, and this is a serious message,” Gen. Salami said on Saturday.

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