Top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was among the history-makers of Islam and Iran and reminder of the companions of Imam Ali (PBUH), the first Imam of Shia Muslims.
The remarks were made by Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in an address to a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
He added Lieutenant General Soleimani was at the center of the Islamic awakening initiated by the great awakener of the contemporary era and the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini.
The top commander’s moves and measures were indescribable and unbelievable, Velayati said.
Noting that he has had the honor of accompanying Lieutenant General Soleimani in joint efforts to promote Islamic awakening, Velayati stressed that the Iranian commander had been brought up based on the teachings of the Islamic school and was a devoted follower of Imam Ali (PBUH) and ready to make any sacrifice to serve Muslims and Islam’s goals.
Velayati said Imam Khomeini became the pioneer and harbinger of the Islamic awakening in the contemporary era, as he said he would “slap the U.S. in the mouth”, noting it means that America, the symbol of the global arrogance, no longer has a place in the region.
Velayati added Imam Khomeini had many devoted followers, such as Lieutenant General Soleimani, whose efforts and martyrdom rescued the region – the heart of the Muslim world in political geography – from the grip of foreign-backed terrorist and extremist groups, such as Daesh.
Commemorating Lieutenant General Soleimani’s memory, he said, “We are indebted to the great martyr.”
Along with his companion second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Unit Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Lieutenant General Soleimani was assassinated in a U.S. drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.
Call for condemnation
In addition, in remarks to praise the Iranian commander, Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament stressed in a post on his Twitter account that nobody did more to defeat Daesh in Iraq than Lieutenant General Soleimani.
His said while the U.S. and its allies were responsible for the rise of Daesh and the arming of extremist groups, nobody did more to defeat the terrorist group (Daesh) than Lieutenant General Soleimani.
Wallace added, “Where was the condemnation from the International Community when he was murdered by the US...?”
He made the remarks in reply to a tweet by the Iranian Embassy in Belgium which said, "We invite you to watch a short video we put together at the Embassy in commemoration of the second anniversary of the martyrdom of General Soleimani, the hero strove to bring about the peace in the region & was a sturdy bulwark against the spread of extremism and terrorism. #HERO.”
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