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A public tribute was paid this Saturday to General Soleimani, the leader of the Revolutionary Guards eliminated two years ago by the United States.
The Iraqi press reported a gathering of thousands of people on Saturday in one of the main squares in the Iraqi capital. Against the backdrop of slogans “No to America”, “US terrorism must end”, one of the speakers, leader of a faction of Iraqi Shiite militias integrated into the national army, pointed out the objective aimed: “If we want to avenge the blood of martyrs, it will be through the expulsion of all foreign forces in order to achieve full national sovereignty.” This Sunday evening, a candlelight vigil will be organized at Baghdad airport, where Iranian General Soleimani was killed by a drone strike on January 3, 2020 .
In Tehran, where Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei received the general’s widow, other ceremonies are scheduled until Friday, during which the mullahs’ regime will publicly exhibit its new military capabilities in missiles.
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A pressure lever
The “expulsion” of foreign forces? The some 2,500 American soldiers stationed in Iraq, however, no longer have a combative vocation since last month and are only kept there in an advisory role to the Iraqi army for its anti-jihadist fight. But for Hamdi Malik, an Iraqi militia specialist at the Washington Institute, “if the Vienna negotiations on Iranian nuclear power do not lead to a concrete agreement, Iran will not hesitate to use them to put pressure on the United States. “.
As if Tehran did not want to waste any leverage to maintain the pressure. France thus condemned the launch on Thursday by Iran of a rocket carrying space research satellites, the technology of which can be used for ballistic fire capable of carrying nuclear weapons, at a time when, according to Paris, the negotiations of Vienna are experiencing “progress”.