Supplemental Info:
The threat was made on Iran’s state-run PressTV.
Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and, from 1998 until his death in 2020, commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.
Soleimani was assassinated on 3 January 2020 around 1:00 a.m. ET by U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.
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