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UN official: Soleimani's killing violated international human rights law
Date: 2020-01-03 15:31:26 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8254577
NEW YORK, Jan 3 (MENA) - Agnès Callamard, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said that US President Donald Trump-approved drone strike against Qassim Soleimani, Iran’s top general, violated international human rights ....
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Trump tweets after US kills Iranian general: ‘He should have been taken out many years ago!’
Date: 2020-01-03 14:41:40 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8254512
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump tweeted his first statement responding to American forces’ killing of the top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, saying "He should have been taken out many years ago!" Trump tweeted that ....
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UK opposition leader warns of escalation in Mideast after killing Iranian general
Date: 2020-01-03 13:14:20 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8254331
LONDON, Jan 3 (MENA) – Outgoing Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Friday the UK to stand up to the "belligerent" US after the assassination of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the Mirror reported. Corbyn said there must be restraint on both ....
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Pompeo says US committed to de-escalation after killing Soleimani
Date: 2020-01-03 13:06:58 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8254333
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (MENA) - Washington is committed to "de-escalation" after a US air strike in Baghdad killed Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s growing military influence in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ....
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Council of resistance of Iran chief says time comes to expel IRGC from region
Date: 2020-01-03 11:20:40 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8254112
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (MENA) - President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi described the elimination of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mehdi Muhandes, the head of Iraq’s suppressive Bassij force, as an irreparable blow to ....
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Iran's Foreign Ministry summons Swiss Charge d'affaires
Date: 2020-01-03 09:51:52 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8253907
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (MENA) - Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Charge d'affaires of Switzerland in Tehran, the US interest section in Iran, to convey protest to the US terrorist act in killing IRGC commander Qasem Soleiman in Iraq, IRNA news agency ....
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Iranian Supreme Leader: Severe revenge awaiting criminals
Date: 2020-01-03 09:45:27 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8253908
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (MENA) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that harsh and severe revenge is awaiting the criminals who killed commander of IRGC's Quds Forces Major General Qasem Soleimani, IRNA news agency reported on Friday. In a ....
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Former IRGC chief vows vigorous revenge against US for killing Soleimani
Date: 2020-01-03 09:28:33 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:8253910
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (MENA) - Former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Rezaei vowed that Iran will take a vigorous revenge against the US for killing leader of elite Quds Force Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported. "We ....
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Iranian FM: US assassination of General Soleimani "dangerous, foolish"
Date: 2020-01-03 09:13:02 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8253912
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the US act of assassinating the IRGC commander Major General Qasem Soleimani as "dangerous and foolish," IRNA news agency reported on Friday. “The US bears ....
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Iraqi PMF says Iran's Soleimani, militias' leader Muhandis killed in US airstrike in Baghdad
Date: 2020-01-03 09:11:52 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8253915
BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (MENA) - Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) confirmed the death of the militias' deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and commander of Iran's elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major-General Qassem ....
