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The first cycle of commander Soleimani Kuds, who was killed in a US attack, is being spoken by high-ranking Iranians pledged to retaliate.
According to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, Iranian judiciary chief Ebrahim Laishi said Monday that “there will be nowhere safe for the Soleimani killer.”
“The complete withdrawal of US troops and bringing the heinous assassin to trial would be a harsh revenge for the assassination of Soleimani.”
He added, “The enemies will now have a very difficult life,” he added. “They will wait for the last retaliation.”
Esmail Ghani, who succeeded Soleimani as commander of the Kuds Army, also pledged to retaliate, saying, “Someone will appear in the enemy’s house to avenge their crimes.”
“Iran is always ready to respond to the United States,” he added. “A joke from the United States will not prevent the Kuds from resistance.”
Former Commander Soleimani was killed on January 3rd last year in Baghdad, Iraq, in a U.S. drone attack.
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Kuds Army in 1998 after earning his reputation as a division leader during the Iran-Iraq War.
In Iran, he was treated as a hero, and there was a view that Soleimani, the head of the Kuds Army, was closer to the’second man’ after the chief leader Ali Hamenei than the elected president.
However, the United States and Israel regarded the Kuds forces as the core of support for terrorism and have sought to eliminate him.
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