Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations, in a US drone strike on Baghdad airport in January 2020.
Iran's Foreign Ministry refuted allegations levelled by the US Justice Department that a member of the IRGC orchestrated a plot to assassinate former US national security advisor John Bolton as "baseless".
Sadr is paving the way for pro-Iranian parties to increase their seats in the Council of Representatives.
Tehran lost its most valuable strategic mind and if the past two years are anything to go by, he will not be replaced any time soon.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that former US president Donald Trump must be prosecuted and executed as the murderer of Qasem Soleimani during his memorial ceremony.
The base's defence system had engaged "two fixed-wing suicide drones" that were shot down "without incident," said an official of the US-led international military coalition.
Image posted on the news website included a missile coming down from a fist bearing a ring long associated with Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed by a US drone strike in Iraq on January 3, 2020.
The crowd called for the expulsion of remaining American forces from Iraq during the demonstration commemorating the 2020 air strike that killed Soleimani and his lieutenant Muhandis.
US-Iran geopolitical challenges and a dysfunctional Iraqi government mean the country is teetering on a precarious edge.
Besides the question of Iran’s culpability in the assassination attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iraq still faces grave problems that violence and instability can exacerbate.
Iran's Guardian Council seems to have all but snuffed out any moderate or reformist competition ahead of June's election.
The US has lost its bargaining power with Iran, and its allies have lost faith in its ability to influence the Middle East.
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