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Higher Iranian general was killed in Baghdad as a result of US operation
General Kasem Suleimani, the head of the Al-KudS forces, units of the Islamic Revolution Corps, responsible for special operations in foreign states, was killed on Friday as a result of an air strike at Baghdad International Airport. This was the first to report the state television of Iraq. The Pentagon representative confirmed that it was an American military operation carried out by order of President Trump.
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0:00 0:02:42Together with Suleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the forces of folk mobilization, armed group supported by Iran, was killed. According to the Associated Press source, an air blow was delivered after the plane from Suleimani on board, which arrived from Lebanon or from Syria, landed in Baghdad. A few hours earlier, the Baghdad airport was an object of a missile strike.
Suleimani is one of the most influential figures of the Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and the military structures of Iran.
A blow to the airport was inflicted against the backdrop of a sharply aggravated relationship between the American contingent in Iraq and the Rights Armed Forces. On December 27, as a result of a missile strike on the American military base in Iraq, an American who worked there under a contract was killed. As a result of the response American strike, 25 militants of the Right Military Group were killed. A day later, its members organized the siege of the American embassy in Baghdad, destroying one of the premises on its territory. The two -day siege of the embassy was shot on Wednesday after it became known about sending 750 American troops to the region. President Trump accused Iran of organizing attacks on American facilities in Iraq. On Thursday, a few hours before the airport, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said "the conditions of the game have changed." From now on, according to him, the acts of violence from the pro -River groups will be given a military answer.
It is expected that the death of Suleimani will entail retaliatory strikes on the American and Israeli objects in the Middle East from Iran and the Right Groups.