Hundreds of people gathered Saturday night to Sunday near Baghdad airport, at the spot where Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the number two People’s Crowd militia were killed a year ago. Abu Mahdi to the Mohandes, to cry out for revenge against the United States.
The congregants, supporters of the pro-government group Popular Crowd, pro-Iranian militias and other armed factions, carried portraits of Soleimani and Muhandis, who were killed in an attack by an American drone, and banners with slogans against the country. American.
From the same spot on the airport road where the attack took place a year ago, they chanted chants against the United States and demanded the implementation of the resolution adopted by the Iraqi Parliament shortly after the assassination. demanding the departure of American country troops.
“It is an honor for us to be at the place where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani were assassinated by the despicable Trump and the American occupation forces,” the leader of the Popular Crowd, Faleh a l’Fayad.
The rally was a preview of the large rally called for this Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of the deaths of the two leaders and which will start from Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the Iraqi capital.
Attendees at the rally also demanded that the results of the investigation into the aggression, in which eight more people were killed, be revealed and that those responsible inside and outside Iraq be punished.
They referred to American action as “airport crime” and “the murder of victory leaders,” for the role the two leaders played in the defeat in Iraq of the state. Islamic, in which Iran supports its neighbor with military advice and Shiite militias.