Iran Marks 5th Anniversary of Gen. Soleimani Martyrdom

An event in commemoration of General Soleimani will also be held at the Grand Musalla (prayer hall) of Tehran on Thursday evening.

On Wednesday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received the families of the late commander and his comrades, the families of those martyred in his funeral in 2020, and the families of the martyrs of last year’s terrorist attack in Kerman.

People in the southern city of Kerman, the hometown of General Soleimani, have also attended rallies and commemorative ceremonies to pay tribute to the popular figure.

In January 2020, a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport assassinated General Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. The attack — that also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror group, along with several others— came while General Soleimani was on an official visit to the Iraqi capital.

Both commanders were highly popular because of the key role they played in eliminating the Daesh terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.