Tehran, IRNA – An Azeri journalist says the Zionists became frightened after people in Azerbaijan held up pictures of Iranian military commander Lt General Qassem Soleimani after his martyrdom in January 2020.
In an interview with the IRNA published on Thursday, Khial Aliyev spoke of the feelings of the Azeri people after General Soleimani’s assassination by the US forces in Iraq some two years ago.
Aliyev said that despite the continuous propaganda targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran in Azerbaijan, people in the country hang pictures of Gen Soleimani in various towns and cities after his assassination, a move that he said had deeply infuriated the Zionists.
The Azeri journalist visited the office of the Islamic Republic News Agency in Tehran on Tuesday and met with IRNA directors. He is to attend a ceremony in Tehran in the upcoming days to mark Gen Soleimani’s third martyrdom anniversary to deliver a speech about the constructive role played by the Iranian commander to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia on disputed issue of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gen Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Qods Force, was assassinated with a number of his companions, including Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the acting commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), in a US drone attack just outside the main airport in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
Source: Islamic Republic News Agency – IRNA
