Two years after the death of the Iranian general, killed in Baghdad by the United States, the regime multiplies the declarations and, novelty of the year, broadcast a video featuring an elimination of Donald Trump.
The Islamic Republic commemorates, in its own way, the death of General Soleimani, the man who commanded the regime’s dirty wars in the region and whom Donald Trump’s United States assassinated on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad. The Persian version of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website released an animated video of just under two minutes on Wednesday.
It shows an operation to eliminate the former American president: a terrestrial drone infiltrates what strongly resembles the billionaire’s residence in Florida, hacks into the CCTV cameras and then the men present, including Trump, see themselves display on their phone a quote from Khamenei: “Soleimani’s killers and those who gave the orders must pay the price.” The land machine then designates the target (Trump) with a laser, which is in the viewfinder of an aerial drone. We imagine what’s next. The video ends with a photo of Soleimani and his staunch ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, also killed in the January 3, 2020 strike.
According to the description provided by the site, the video was produced by Internet users from a visual released last year by the office of the Supreme Leader. The poster, titled “Vengeance is inexorable”, featured Donald Trump playing golf, hovered over by a drone whose silhouette shaded the green. The imagination of the faithful did the rest.
Rocket attacks
This spectacular, albeit anecdotal, propaganda video is only one part of the ongoing commemorations. In Iraq, attacks against American installations or interests have multiplied in recent weeks. If they are not claimed, Washington attributes them to pro-Iranian militias. Thursday evening, three rockets fell on the “green zone” in Baghdad, injuring “a woman, a little girl and a young boy”, according to an Iraqi military source quoted by AFP.
On January 5, a base hosting the forces of the anti-terrorist coalition in the west of the country came under rocket fire, as well as a hold in northeastern Syria. An attack had been thwarted the day before, according to the coalition, and others, carried out using booby-trapped drones, had reached their objective in the previous days without causing any casualties.
In Tehran, the power marked the blow by drawing improbable sanctions against 51 American officials from this administration and the previous one, accused of having played a role in the assassination of General Soleimani. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei took advantage of his speech on the anniversary of the Qom uprising, one of the important moments of the 1979 revolution, to pay a new tribute to the warlord to whom he was close and his legacy: “They thought that by killing the martyr Soleimani they would also destroy the great movement he embodied, but it only grew.”
Soleimani’s successor as head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Al Quds Force, took on the more martial declarations: “We are preparing the ground to take revenge on the Americans where we deem it necessary, inside their homes, using people on their side, without even being there”, launched Esmail Qaani on January 6.