Iranian Terrorists Demand Attack on U.S. to Mark 2nd Anniversary of Soleimani Drone Strike

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei honored Soleimani with remarks on Saturday during a meeting with Soleimani's family, claiming President Joe Biden's extension and abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan as a victory for Iran.
52% : In Iraq, the PMF held a large candlelight vigil for Soleimani and its member al-Muhandis this weekend, flooding Baghdad with images of the Iranian terrorist.
50% : Soleimani, a major general, was the head of the Quds Force, a wing of the IRGC dedicated to international terrorism.
47% : A U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq, ordered by then-President Donald Trump took Soleimani out on January 3, 2020.
47% : "The enemies thought that with the martyrdom of Soleimani, Abu Mahdi and his other companions, the work would be over," Khamenei, said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency, "but today, thanks to that dear blood wrongly spilled, the United States has fled Afghanistan."
47% : "Today, Soleimani is a symbol of hope, self-confidence, courage and the secret of endurance and victory in our region, and as some have rightly said, Martyr Soleimani is more dangerous to his enemies than Commander Soleimani," Khamenei claimed.
44% : In a private conversation leaked last year, former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif complained that Soleimani regularly intervened in his work.
41% : American officials had significant evidence indicating that Soleimani was the mastermind of using roadside bombs in Iraq to target American soldiers, killing hundreds and potentially injuring thousands, and was largely in charge of Iran's foreign policy.
40% : Also targeted in the strike was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of the Iraqi terrorist militia the Hezbollah Brigades (Kata'ib Hezbollah), who Soleimani was in town to meet.
39% : Iran has yet to pay the families of the civilians killed redress in any way.
38% : Iran, a Shiite Islamist theocracy, has maintained traditionally tense relations with the Taliban, now a Sunni Islamist theocracy, and the two engaged in a violent scuffle on the Iranian-Afghan border as recently as a month ago.
34% : "Students" belonging to a paramilitary wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, published a letter this weekend lamenting that Iran had not issued a "proportionate" response to the elimination of top terrorist Qasem Soleimani two years ago.
34% : Iran, especially Soleimani personally, played no significant part in the Afghan War.

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