“General Soleimani was not only a national hero, but also the source of pride for all regional countries and the whole Muslim Ummah,” Rouhani said on Wednesday.
“The assassination of Soleimani was revenge against the Islamic Republic and all the independent countries in the region; a revenge against the great nations that stood against the US and Zionists’ conspiracies,” he went on to say.
Rouhani stressed that US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are on top of the list of perpetrators of the heinous terror attack, saying, “They did not want the ISIL terrorism to end like this.”
“ISIL was a mercenary of the Zionists and the Americans. When they were hit, the Israelis gave them weapons wherever they needed,” he noted.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
"No one benefits from the insecurity of Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan except the Zionists,” the president stressed.
Rouhani said the enemies tried to eliminate the number one anti-terror commander, but they immortalized him in history.
Addressing the perpetrators of the assassination, he said, “You cut off the arms of our commander, we will cut off your feet from the region.”
In relevant remarks on Monday, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said that regional security can be materialized only through expulsion of foreign forces, adding that the US military activities in the region stem from their fear of past criminal acts.
Shamkhani wrote on his Twitter page that security will be brought to the region only if foreign anti-security forces leave the region, and stressed that the recent activities of the US troops stem from their vicious measures in the past.
He went on to say that such moves further spread insecurity in the region.
Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020.
The airstrike also martyred Deputy Commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The two were martyred in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
Five Iranian and five Iraqi military men were martyred by the missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.
On January 8, the IRGC Aerospace Force started heavy ballistic missile attacks on US Ein Al-Assad airbase in Southwestern Iraq near the border with Syria and a US operated airbase in Erbil in retaliation for the US assassination of General Soleimani.
Ein Al-Assad is an airbase with a 4km runway at 188m altitude from sea levels, which is the main and the largest US airbase in Iraq. Early reports said the radar systems and missile defense shields in Ein Al-Assad failed to operate and intercept the Iranian missiles. Unofficial reports said the US army's central radar systems at Ein Al-Assad had been jammed by electronic warfare.
The second IRGC reprisal attack targeted a US military base near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the second leg of "Martyr Soleimani" reprisal operation.
Iraq said the attacks had not taken any toll from its army men stationed at these two bases. The US army had blocked entrance into Ein Al-Assad to everyone, including the Iraqi army.
The IRGC officials said none of the missiles had been intercepted.
Meantime, Iran announced in late June that it had issued arrest warrants for 36 officials of the US and other countries who have been involved in the assassination of the martyred General Soleimani.
"36 individuals who have been involved or ordered the assassination of Hajj Qassem, including the political and military officials of the US and other governments, have been identified and arrest warrants have been issued for them by the judiciary officials and red alerts have also been issued for them via the Interpol," Prosecutor-General of Tehran Ali Alqasi Mehr said.
He said that the prosecuted individuals are accused of murder and terrorist action, adding that US President Donald Trump stands at the top of the list and will be prosecuted as soon as he stands down presidency after his term ends.
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