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On Saturday, a ceremony was held inside the dome of the Iraqi parliament to mark the anniversary of the assassination of former Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and deputy head of the Iraqi People’s Mobilization Authority Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis. , in a move that sparked much controversy in Iraq.
The ceremony was attended by the president of the Parliament Muhammad al-Halbousi, the president of the People’s Mobilization Authority, Faleh al-Fayadh, several deputies, political figures and representatives of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, and Prime Minister Mustafa al- Kazemi.
The great hall inside the Iraqi parliament witnessed the placement of photographs of the engineer and Soleimani, in the place where the parliament had taken a room to hold its sessions recently, instead of the old room, in order to ensure social distancing among the representatives during the sessions for the Corona pandemic.
Iraqi activists and tweeters criticized the timing and location of the ceremony, in light of Iraqis’ anticipation of the repercussions related to the currency devaluation, as representatives of the people are busy recalling two figures who have sparked much controversy. During the last years.
Some cynical tweeters wondered if this place that was witnessing the celebration was the Iraqi parliament or the Iranian parliament.
Commemoration of the first memory of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the engineer in the Iraqi parliament
The beginning of the ceremony began with the recitation of verses from the Holy Quran, then poems were recited praising the two leaders.
Participants stood in his honor, then a commemorative bouquet was symbolically placed alongside their photos.
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Financial crisis and collapse on the horizon, and what are they busy with? pic.twitter.com/fZ6ugBR79Z– شاهو القرةداغي (@shahokurdy) December 19, 2020
This is found … what he likes, he likes, and for me what he likes, he stains his head with the wall … with his shrouds we celebrate if we isolate his kevna, we raise the dollar, we lower the dollar in his kevna ,,, we play with you the beach hidden in his kevna #Iranian Parliament pic.twitter.com/zy4iobakDA
– Hussain Al Thani 🇮🇶 (@HS___TA) December 19, 2020
The Iranian Parliament, sorry, the House of Representatives of the agents and looters, because the Iranians are better than them, what they sold to their country as they are traitors https://t.co/LU70HLI0LS
– RashaA💫 (@ Ra_sha86) December 19, 2020
Al-Halbousi and Faiq Zaidan, with their text, the photo is from the celebration of the Iranian parliament, the Baghdad branch, the death of Soleimani and his owner. pic.twitter.com/C4fo9XApy9
– sultanalazawy (@sultanalazawy) December 19, 2020
A photographic exhibition by Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis (under the title = Al-Shayeb, the consciousness of the people) on the annual memorial held in #Iraqi Parliament or better # Thieves_Iraqi Council pic.twitter.com/kWvKVDy6GL
– Shamal Salim- ش al ماڵ عادل سەلیم (@SalimShamal) December 19, 2020
The former commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was killed during an American airstrike near the Baghdad airport in the early hours of January 3, accompanied by the deputy of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who at that time was the head of the Iraqi People’s Mobilization Authority.
The United States viewed Soleimani as a threat to its national security and said the attack that targeted his two-car convoy near the Baghdad airport was not intended to kill the engineer and eight other people with him.
Soleimani’s death prompted the Iraqi parliament to ratify a formal request to withdraw US forces deployed in the country as part of an international coalition to fight ISIS.
During the years since the fall of the old Iraqi regime in 2003, reports indicated that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei assigned Soleimani the responsibility of managing the Iraqi archive.
On the other hand, Al-Muhandis has a long history of working, establishing and training Iraqi extremist militias, which made him work as Soleimani’s first adviser.
The engineer is known by 19 kinetic names that were revealed by Washington in its decision when it placed him on the sanctions list in 2009, including Jamal Jaafar Muhammad Ali, Abu Mahdi al-Basri, Jamal Jaafar al-Ibrahimi and Jamal al -Tamimi, and now he is the vice president of the Popular Mobilization Authority.
He played an important role in the implementation of Iran’s agenda in the region and its interventions in Iraq and the countries of the region. He was one of the most active Iraqi figures who began working with Tehran since 2003, and before that he was known as a “deputy agent” by Iran, according to an analysis published by The Washington Institute. In 2015.
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