Saturday, July 16, 2022

Iran may be seeking to kill top US officials as revenge for Soleimani death

The US government believes that Iran may try to assassinate current or former US officials as a way of revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani back in January 2020, Yahoo News reported earlier this week.

According to an intelligence report obtained exclusively by Yahoo News, "the Iranian regime is waging a multipronged campaign - including threats of lethal action, international legal maneuvering and the issuance of Iranian arrest warrants and sanctions — against select US officials to avenge the death of IRGC-QF Commander Soleimani in January 2020, raising the threat at home and abroad for those Iran views as responsible for the killing."

Soleimani was considered to be one of the most powerful men in Iran during the final years of his life, serving as the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, an elite part of Iran's military forces. 



On January 3, 2020, Soleimani was assassinated in a targeted US drone strike in Iraq on the orders of then-president Donald Trump.

Now, according to the report obtained by Yahoo News, Iran is seeking to avenge his death. READ MORE