On day US killed Soleimani, it launched strike that failed to kill top Iranian in Yemen

By Caitlin Yilek

Published January 10, 2020 6:09pm ET

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On day US killed Soleimani, it launched strike that failed to kill top Iranian in Yemen — Posters of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani are placed on chairs as supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gather for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Soleimani. The posters read: "Sayyad of martyrs in the axis of resistance. The martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani." | (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

The same day the United States killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, the military launched another secret mission targeting a senior Iranian military official in Yemen.

The operation targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was unsuccessful, four U.S. officials familiar with the matter told the Washington Post.

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