Reuters - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an Iranian-Iraqi businessman and his mining company, accusing him of being involved in efforts by Irans elite Quds Force to generate revenue illegally and smuggle weapons abroad, the U.S. Treasury Department said. The Treasury Department said in a statement that Amir Dianat has supported ...

Yahoo News | Zach Dorfman and Sean D. Naylor: One afternoon in Baghdad in the final months of 2007, a few members of a U.S. special operations task force were monitoring the feed from a Predator drone over the Iraqi capital, scanning for signs of trouble, when they spotted a large crowd gathering in the neighborhood of Sadr City. From their large,...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Washingtons threat to assassinate the new commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)s Quds Force reveals the US state terrorism. After the Zionist regime, the US is the second regime that has officially announced it will utilize the state potential as well as the military forces ...

Press TV - The US special representative for Iran has threatened the Islamic Republic with yet another act of state terrorism, saying Washington will assassinate the successor of senior anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as well if he follows in the path of the martyred general. If (Esmail) Qaani follows the same path of killing ...

MNA The introduction ceremony of new Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmaeil Ghaani was held at the venue of IRGC General Commandership on Mon. The ceremony was attended by the Chief of Staff of Irans Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Leaders Representative in IRGC Hojjatoleslam Haji Sadeghi,...

Press TV - The newly-appointed head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)s Quds Force says Iran dealt the US a first slap by striking two American bases in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of his predecessor, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. With Gods blessing, the first slap was decisively delivered to the worlds largest capitalist ...

IRNA - The new commander of Quds Force said the revenge for General Soleimani is a promise given by God and his martydom will be reciprocated by removing the US from the region. Commander of the IRGC Quds Forces Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani said: We promise to continue Martyr Soleimanis path with the same strength and his martyrdom will be reciprocated ...

FNA - Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh condemned the US assassination of commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and said all Muslims will continue what the top general has done. I announced that the resistance project in the Palestinian lands will continue, it will not be ...

Independent | Bel Trew: It seemed too fantastical to be true when reports first swirled of the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the chief of the clandestine foreign wing of Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of Tehrans most powerful generals. Even more ludicrous were the suggestions a US drone strike on Baghdad airport had ...

The Guardian | Simon Tisdall: Iran has military, covert and diplomatic options. And this new phase of the confrontation could quickly get out of hand On the outskirts of Tehran, vast cemeteries serve as a grim reminder of the high price Iran paid during its 1980-88 war with Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of young Iranians fought and died in a horrific ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US grave mistake in assassinating Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC Quds Force, will lead to the withdrawal of this country from the Middle East region. Zarif made the remarks while speaking live on TV on Friday night, hours after General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis,...

Sputnik - Esmail Ghaani was named the new head of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps foreign operations branch, the Quds Force, shortly after its head General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike early on 3 January. Esmail Ghaani, the successor to recently-assassinated General Qasem Soleimani, head of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will certainly take revenge for the US assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani. The Iranian nation reserves the legitimate and certain right to retaliate for the US killing of General Soleimani, Rouhani said in a meeting with the family of the late ...

Tasnim | Morteza Salehi, Hossein Tahavori, Mehdi Pedramkhoo, Nima Najafzadeh, Amir Hossein Nazari & Reza Adeli: Iranians shouting death to America took to streets after Friday prayers to mourn for the general Qassem Soleimani who was martyred in a US strike in Baghdad in the early hours of Friday.   ' ...

Press TV - Major General Qassem Soleimani, whose assassination by the US was confirmed earlier on Friday, had played a major role in defending Iran against its enemies and assisting regional countries fightforeign occupation and terrorism. Soleimani, born in 1957, started his military career by joining the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps(IRGC)following ...

IRNA - Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the US criminals will not be able to achieve their goals through terrorist operations the latest of which is the assassination of the Commander of the IRGC's Quds Forces Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani. In his statement, Nasrallah said all Soleimanis ...

Press TV - Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has condemned US assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani, warning of devastating consequences for Iraq as senior Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr putall his forces on alert. The United States confirmed early on Friday that its forces had assassinated Gen. Soleimani and Abu Mahdi ...

The Guardian | Mohammad Ali Shabani: The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians. His death could act as a rallying cry he US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Irans Quds force, alongside a senior commander of Iraqs Popular Mobilisation Units, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. To grasp what may come ...

Reuters - Irans top security body will meet on Friday to discuss the criminal attack that killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, its spokesman was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency. In the next few hours, an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme National Security Council will be held to probe the criminal act of attack ...

Reuters |Babak Dehghanpisheh: Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders. His death on Friday in a U.S. air strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport ...