Новости за 04.01.2020

TEHRAN (FNA)- The funeral ceremony for IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashad al-Shaabi) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their companions was held in the holy Iraqi city of Kazemein on Saturday. [PHOTOS]

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian embassy in Moscow strongly condemned the terror attack on IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani which was directly ordered by US President Donald Trump, stressing that the world will be a safer and more secure place without the United States' criminal rulers.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnouri underlined that the US bases and forces in the region will no more be safe after Washington's assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Commander Major General Hossein Salami said Iran's reprisal for the US Friday terror attack on IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani will include strategic operations to be carried out in a vast theater with determining outcomes and throughout time.

TEHRAN (FNA)- NATO suspended training missions in Iraq, a spokesman for the alliance stated on Saturday, following the US assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior military commander of Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah group Abu Ali al-Askari called for enrollment of the crowds who have volunteered for martyrdom-seeking operations against the US occupying forces.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said Washington took an "irreversible" step by assassinating Commander of the IRGC Qods Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and should wait for a harsh revenge.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Beijing Mohammad Keshavarzzadeh informed Chinese officials that Tehran holds Washington responsible for all the repercussions of the assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said that US President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as a boost to his re-election campaign, stressing that it was a big miscalculation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Swiss charge d’affaires, whose country represents the US interests in Iran, was summoned by the Foreign Ministry for the second time in a single day to receive Tehran’s answer to Washington's message, after the terrorist army of the US assassinated Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee reiterated that his country’s right to take revenge on the US for the assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani is enshrined in the United Nations Charter, adding that Tehran will never surrender in the face of Washington’s pressures.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the US officials will, now and in the future, suffer from consequences of their decision to assassinate Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- High-ranking US Democrats warned that the assassination of Iran’s elite Quds Force chief will invite retaliatory attacks from Tehran and bring the two nations to the brink of a major war in the Middle East.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The internationally-recognised parliament of Libya voted on Saturday to cancel the agreement on military cooperation between the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) and Turkey, according to Al-Arabiya broadcaster.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmayeeli said that his country will file a lawsuit against the US at international courts over the targeted assassination of Commander of IRGC Qods Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Dow Jones and S&P 500 stock indexes posted their biggest losses in a month after a US assault assassinated Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, tempered only by the buoyant mood of defense and oil-related shares.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said that the Americans who are afraid of the scale of Iran's response to the assassination of the IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani have resorted to diplomacy.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that his country will assuredly take revenge on the US for assassinating Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani with no respect for the US media warfare.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Jewish Community of Shiraz in Southern Iran in a message on Saturday blasted the US for the assassination of the anti-terrorism commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and said that Washington’s terrorist act once again proved that regime’s brutality and villain nature.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a telephone dialogue with UN Secretary General António Guterres, warned that the US is accountable for all consequences of its terror attack on Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The toll of people infected with pneumonia of unknown kind in the Wuhan city of the central Chinese province of Hubei has risen to 44 as authorities fear the return of deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, the local health committee said in a statement on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Protesters took to the streets of Amman on Friday to protest the pumping of gas supplies from Israel's offshore Leviathan field to Jordan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in a statement underlined that the terror attack on Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was the most stupid mistake made by the US in West Asia, with repercussions that would cost Washington direly.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Sen. Chris Murphy said Washington's assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani is similar to a situation where Iran hunts down the US Secretary of Defense.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Ambassador to London Hamid Baeedinejad categorically blasted his American counterpart’s unrealistic allegations about the martyred anti-terrorism commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and said that the top Iranian general was a pioneer in the anti-terror campaign, specially battling the ISIL terrorist group, in the region.