Iranian People Vote to Leader’s Remarks about Martyr Soleimani as Chosen Sentence of Year
The Iranian people chose Supreme Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed Imam Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's comments about martyred anti-terror Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as the selected sentence of the past Persian year (ended on March 20).
The Iranians participated in an online poll and chose a sentence by Ayatollah Khamenei who said “Martyr Soleimani is more dangerous than General Soleimani for enemies” as the Leader’s selected sentence. The sentence alludes to the fact that General Soleimani’s friends across the region and the world and the resistant front will take revenge for his martyrdom from the enemies.
According to Khamenei.ir website, over 97,000 Internet users took part in an online poll survey since March 14, 2022 till March 19, 2022 and they voted to the aforementioned sentence.
Former Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020.
The airstrike also martyred Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The two were martyred in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
Five Iranian and five Iraqi military men were martyred by the missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.
On January 8, 2020, and after the funeral ceremony of General Soleimani, the IRGC Aerospace Force started heavy ballistic missile attacks on US Ein Al-Assad airbase in Southwestern Iraq near the border with Syria and a US operated airbase in Erbil in retaliation for the US assassination of General Soleimani.
Ein Al-Assad is an airbase with a 4km runway at 188m altitude from sea levels, which is the main and the largest US airbase in Iraq. Early reports said the radar systems and missile defense shields in Ein Al-Assad failed to operate and intercept the Iranian missiles. Unofficial reports said the US army’s central radar systems at Ein Al-Assad had been jammed by electronic warfare.
The second IRGC reprisal attack targeted a US military base near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the second leg of “Martyr Soleimani” reprisal operation.
Iraq said the attacks had not taken any toll from its army men stationed at these two bases. The US army had blocked entrance into Ein Al-Assad to everyone, including the Iraqi army.
The IRGC officials said none of the missiles had been intercepted.
