The motion passed at an open parliament session also obliges the government to allocate 200 million euros ($224 million) from the National Development Fund for the elite Quds Force.
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The chief of Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday that the US killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq was a “new phase” for the Middle East.
The attack near Baghdad airport killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the deputy head of Iraq’s Muslim Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi, along with six other Iran-allied militiamen.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has warned British citizens against travel to Iraq or Iran amid heightened tension following the US airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
When President Donald Trump’s national security team went to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, they weren’t expecting him to approve an operation to kill General Qassem Soleimani.
President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani to stop a war.
Soleimani was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump, the US Department of Defence said in a statement
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said the that the US air strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East aimed to disrupt an “imminent attack” that would have endangered Americans in the Middle East.
India on Friday called for “restraint” as the situation in the Gulf escalated dramatically after the killing of a top Iranian military commander by the U.S. forces at Baghdad airport in Iraq.