“God willing, we can kill Trump, Pompeo, (former US Central Command chief General Kenneth) Mackenzie and the military leaders who gave the order to kill Soleimani,” said Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Chief of the IRGC’s aerospace division, said on state television. Hajizadeh made the comments while discussing Iran’s missile attack on Ain al-Assad air base, where US troops are stationed in western Iraq, on January 8, 2020, five days after Soleimani’s assassination. No US servicemen were killed in the attack.Soleimani, one of Iran’s most revered military personnel who led Al-Quds, the IRGC’s foreign arm, was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq ordered by Trump on January 3, 2020. Iranian officials have sworn at several attempts to avenge Soleimani’s death after the attack on Ain al-Assad’s base in Tehran was seen as “insufficient retaliation”, Al-Arabiya TV reported.In January, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, speaking on the third anniversary of the military leader’s assassination, said Soleimani’s revenge was “inevitable”.
Iran’s IRGC commander announced Tehran’s intention to take revenge on Trump and Pompeo for the killing of General Soleimani News
