The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the United States has “fled” Afghanistan and is currently counting its “last months” in Iraq as well. Underlining Washington’s regional “defeats,” Hossein Salami added that US “plots” in Lebanon and Syria have also failed.
The Iranian general, known for his ferocious anti-West rhetoric, was speaking at a “martyrs' graveyard” in the southeastern city of Kerman, where his former colleague, slain commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani,i s also buried. Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in January 2020 outside Baghdad’s international airport. The attack almost brought Tehran and Washington to the brink of a full-scale war. Iran retaliated for the general’s killing with over a dozen missiles that landed on a US air base in neighboring Iraq. American officials have denied Iranian reports that the strike left a number of US soldiers dead.
