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THE ATTACK TO IRAN’S MILITARY LEADER

In the dawn of the first Friday of 2020, January 3, two Hellfire missiles launched by an USAF MQ-9 Reaper drone hit upon vehicles of a convoy leaving Bagdad International Airport, in Iraq. The attack killed major-general Gasem Soleimani, Iran’s most important military leader, in addition to other important figures of Iraqi Shiite Militia. In spite of his title, Soleimani did not belong to the Army or other military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He occupied the highest position in the hierarchy of the powerful Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – a paramilitary organization directly reporting to

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