Soleimani was killed in 2020 by a drone strike ordered by once and future President Donald Trump. The regime kicked off its grim observances a day early, as Soleimani was killed in Iraq on January 3, 2020, local time, while he was coordinating terrorist attacks against Americans with Iraqi Shiite militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.Muhandis was the founder of Kataib Hezbollah (KH), the first Iraqi Shiite militia to be designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government in 2009. He and several of his top officers were killed by the same drone strike that took out Soleimani.
KH was doing much of Iran’s dirty work in Iraq at the time, attacking American positions with rocket attacks and killing an American civilian contractor in late December 2019. Soleimani was also a driving force behind the December 31, 2019, attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Trump said he ordered the drone strike that eliminated Soleimani because he was “planning a very major attack, and we got him.” (Read More)
