No amount of bloodshed can make up for the United States killing Iran’s top commander, an Iranian military official said.
Iranian officials, still angry about the U.S. killing the former Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, want revenge for the leader’s assassination, with the death of every U.S. leader insufficient for achieving justice, a key Iranian military representative said.
“Martyr Soleimani was such a great character that if all American leaders are killed, this will still not avenge his assassination,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Pakpour said. “We should avenge him by following Soleimani’s path and through other methods.”
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Pakpour’s remarks came days after Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and several Republican lawmakers advocated not removing the Revolutionary Guard Corps from the U.S.’s list of terrorist organizations, a sticking point for Iranian negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.
“In my personal opinion, I believe the IRGC Quds Force to be a terrorist organization, and I do not support them being de-listed from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list,” Milley said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Iran has held a grudge since former President Donald Trump ordered Soleimani’s killing in January 2020. This January, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi demanded that Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be prosecuted for assassinating Soleimani.
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A website affiliated with Iranian leadership released an animation on the two-year-anniversary of Soleimani’s killing, in which a drone killed Trump at Mar-a-Lago as an act of revenge.
