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Ten months have passed since Washington struck Tehran a severe blow by assassinating Iranian general and Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani near the Baghdad airport in Iraq.
Soleimani’s file resurfaces today with the emergence of recent US intelligence information that Pentagon leaders are taking precautions against possible Iranian threats, as a veritable revenge from Tehran for Soleimani’s murder.
As the US network “NBC” said on Friday, 5 senior security officials confirmed that military personnel and officials of intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the United States learned late last month information indicating that there were threats against senior Pentagon leaders while on US soil. And outside.
The officials also hinted that the threat that still exists could be a possible retaliation for the murder of Soleimani by the United States last January in the Baghdad airport compound.
Assassination of Soleimani
In addition, they clarified that the information indicates that the targets of the threat are the US military commanders who participated in the decision making and implementation of the assassination.
The US Network quoted two officials as saying the information included a list of the names of military leaders who may be vulnerable to attacks.
Regarding the date of disclosure or arrest of these threats, officials indicated that the warning was issued after an accident that occurred on the night of September 22, noting that a commander of the Ministry of Defense left the Pentagon that night in a pickup truck black government-owned car driven by one of their security guards, when he started a car. Unidentified located them immediately.
It turns out that the driver, who has been identified as an Iranian national, was driving a car with Virginia plates and was closely following the official SUV for a distance of between five and seven miles.
Although some intelligence officials dismissed the hypothesis of the targets, the Pentagon issued an alert and shared the information with the FBI.
This information at the time included photographs of the driver, vehicle, license plate, and information about the driver’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, showing that he had friends in Iran and Afghanistan.
It is noteworthy that the disclosure of these threats by officials of the US network occurred in conjunction with the visit of US Defense Secretary Mark Esper to India this week and to several countries in the Middle East region. He visits her only after leaving the minister.
