Qasem Soleimani, IRGC Major General and commander of the Quds Force, was killed in 2020 by a US strike
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IRAN has claimed that Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel was in revenge for a 2020 assassination of a top Iranian general.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps today called the US strike that killed Qasem Soleimani a “terrorist act”.

Qasem Soleimani, IRGC Major General and commander of the Quds Force, was killed in 2020 by a US strike

Qasem Soleimani, IRGC Major General and commander of the Quds Force, was killed in 2020 by a US strikeCredit: EPA

Soleimani was blown up in a US drone in a strike ordered by former President Donald Trump.

A furious Iran previously called on the UN’s Security Council to take formal action against both the US and Israel – which it also accused of assisting in the assassination hit.

The planned killing was in motion since 2017, US officials later admitted.

The IRGC today also addressed the killing of a senior Iranian advisor in Damascus on Monday that they have accused Israel of carrying out.

The IDF has not commented on the strike.

“I will not comment on various actions we take,” Chief of the General Staff Halevi Halevi said.

“We take whatever action necessary to make it very clear that we are very determined to defend the country, are willing to go far,” he warned.

The advisor, Brigadier General Sayyed Razi Mousavi, was in charge of coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran.

“Undoubtedly, the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in a statement read on state TV.

“This action is another sign of frustration, helplessness, and inability of the occupying Zionist regime.”

Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, also released a statement mourning the death of Mousavi.

The terror group called him “one of the best brothers who worked to support the Islamic resistance in Lebanon for decades.”

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