Al-Arabiya TV showed an exclusive video clip showing the moment the plane of the former Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, arrived at Baghdad airport, minutes before targeting him, as the American drone only took 7 minutes from Soleimani’s arrival for the moment to target and assassinate him at the beginning of this year, in an operation that confused Iran This was followed by an exchange of threats between Tehran and Washington.
Former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq #Arabic: The government of Adel Abdul Mahdi has given approval for an American drone to target a convoy # Qassem_Soleimani pic.twitter.com/H3bG3QnmVe
– (@AlArabiya) December 14, 2020
The video footage showed the deployment of security forces from the crowd to receive the plane, and a number of cars carrying Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the protocol official in the crowd, as Al-Arabiya obtained new information that the American drone targeted Soleimani and the engineer only minutes after the plane arrived at the airport. Baghdad.
The crowd forces waiting for Qasem Suleimani
The moment Kassem Suleimani’s plane arrived
Yesterday, Sunday, former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for an investigation into who granted permission to the American drone that killed Soleimani and the engineer, saying in statements to Al-Hadath channel, “I am not betraying anyone, but if former Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi gave approval. For the American Dron without knowing what it does, it is a disaster. “
With the close of the first anniversary of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, on the third of January 2020, the debate returns about how the American drone entered Iraqi airspace, and who allowed it to do so.
The daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force who was killed in early January in Iraq, had refused a budget allocated by the Iranian government for an institution run in the name of her father, and demanded that it be transferred to solve the problems of the Iranians, according to IRNA.
The budget allocated to it in the new year budget in Iran amounted to 8 billion and 500 million tomans for the Qassem Soleimani Foundation, which the Rouhani government included in the new year budget and submitted to Parliament a few days ago.
Suleimani was killed by an American drone strike in the outskirts of Baghdad, on the third of January 2020, and Zainab Suleimani appeared, for the first time, carrying a weapon during Friday prayers January 10 in the city of Kerman, central Iran.