Nothing more confirmed rumors about the death of general Qasem Soleimani, the local news agencies iranian and the social networks were filled with messages of condolence to their fellow countrymen, many of whom demanded revenge and at the same time expressed its concern that a new conflict in the region.
The iranian authorities have insisted that they will retaliate against the united STATES. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an official statement that the death of the great architect of the regional strategy on iran “will not stop their mission,” and as proof of this appointed immediately to the general Esmail Ghaani as the new head of the Force, The al-Quds (elite corps of external operations of the Revolutionary Guard). Also the assistance unusual Khamenei, the highest authority in iran, to the emergency meeting of the National Security Council indicates that Tehran is planning a forceful response.
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the united States kills the powerful general iran’s Qasem Soleimani in an attack with drones in the airport of Baghdad
“No doubt the great nation of Iran and other free nations of the region to avenge him for the crime of the criminal to the U.S.,” said the iranian president, Hassan Rohaní.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed the view that this attack represents “an escalation of tension extremely dangerous and reckless. Ali Lariyaní, the president of the Parliament and one of the politicians most influential in the country, he said in a television interview the american attack of “a strategic error and a sample of the state terrorism. “The US has destabilized the region for their own troops. We weren’t looking for these circumstances, are the same americans who have opted for this pathway,” said Larijani.
The main shi’a cleric in Iraq, grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has condemned the u.s. attack but he has made an appeal to “all parties concerned to the containment and to act with wisdom”. Diplomacy iran summoned the head of the swiss embassy, which represents U.s. interests in Tehran.
The death of general iranian has sparked a wave of demonstrations in different cities of Iran. Although many iranians disagree with the positions and measures taken by the Revolutionary Guard with respect to the internal crises, considered to Qasem Soleimani as a national hero who fought against the extremism sunni of ISIS and what they saw as a charismatic figure wrapped in a halo of mystery and invincibility. The brutal death that has given him this Friday the Management of Trump has humiliated and outraged to this sector of the majority of the iranian population.
despite this, the citizens look with concern to the future of the region and of their country, which is mired in serious economic problems. Soleimani was in fact the second most powerful man in Iran and the direct representative of the iranian leader on issues related to the middle East, which means that the Islamic Republic may not leave without a response to his murder, because it would be a clear sign of weakness, both at national and international level, that can change the balance of power in favor of their rivals in the sensitive region of the middle East.
Many analysts are in agreement with Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, the deputy minister of Foreign affairs of Iran, in which the murder of Soleimani has been “a serious error of calculation of Trump”, but the iranian authorities are also bewildered and shaken by this stroke in the united STATES, which in turn reveals the error of calculation from Tehran to assess the ability of Washington to embark on an adventurous policy, and electioneering.
Some of the users of social networks, in addition to the condolences on the death of Soleimani, have threatened the sectors most aperturistas who advocate negotiations with the united STATES. That explains the fact that the general Ramezan Sharif, a spokesman of the Revolutionary Guard, has stated in a television interview that “the martyrdom of general Soleimani joins all the social sectors in Iran”, a unit that the Islamic Republic needed more than ever and that allows you to close ranks and to silence critical voices in the run-up to the parliamentary elections of February and at the same time to study different alternatives for a strong response to the united STATES and its regional allies.
