(Newsworthy.news) – Iranian officials have said that the October 7 assaults on Israel were a response to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the country’s top commander.
The US attack that killed Soleimani was formally labeled as a “terrorist act” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The Attack on Israel, according to IRGC spokesperson Ramazan Sharif, was “one of the acts of revenge” Iran had planned in response to Soleimani’s death. Nonetheless, Hamas has vehemently denied any connection between Soleimani’s death and the 1,200 murdered Israelis. Hamas says their day of slaughter was the result of the “occupation” and “dangers facing the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Ex-President Trump authorized the U.S. drone strike that killed the Iranian military commander.
After Soleimani was taken out on January 3, 2020, Iran demanded that the United Nations Security Council punish the United States and Israel, claiming that they were involved in the “assassination.”
For twenty years, Soleimani oversaw the IRGC’s external operations wing, the Quds Force, and was generally considered second only in authority to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei inside the Islamic Republic. The United States government declared Soleimani a terrorist in 2005, and the United Nations and the European Union have also sanctioned him.
Officials in Iran hailed him as a martyr and posthumously promoted him to the rank of lieutenant general.
His death has long been met with threats of revenge from Iranian authorities.
After his killing, the Iranian military attacked US positions in Iraq with missiles.
While the Pentagon said that 110 American personnel were injured in the attacks, Iran has made unsubstantiated allegations after the death of another senior military member in an Israeli airstrike in recent days.
Strikes on the Sayyida Zeinab region, southeast of Damascus, Syria, killed Seyyed Razi Mousavi. As one of the highest-ranking IRGC agents in Syria, Mousavi served as an assistant to Soleimani.
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran once again warned that Israel “would pay” after the assassination of Mousavi.
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