Hundreds of people gathered next to Baghdad airport on the night from Saturday to Sunday, at the point where Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and number two of the Popular Crowd militias, Abu Mahdi al Mohandes, were murdered a year ago. to get revenge on the United States.
The attendees, sympathizers of the pro-government group Popular Crowd, pro-Iranian militias and other armed factions, carried portraits of Soleimani and Muhandis, who died in an attack by an American drone, and banners with slogans against the North American country.
From the same point on the airport road where the attack took place a year ago, they sang chants against the United States and demanded the implementation of the resolution passed by the Iraqi parliament shortly after the targeted assassination involving the departure of U.S. troops from the country. was demanded.
“It is an honor for us to be where Abu Mahdi al Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani were murdered by the despicable Trump and US occupation forces,” Popular Crowd leader Faleh al Fayad said at the event.
The concentration was a preview of the grand demonstration called next Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of the deaths of the two leaders, which will depart from Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the Iraqi capital.
Those attending the meeting also asked for the results of the investigation into the attack, which killed eight other people, and for those responsible inside and outside Iraq to be punished.
They called the US action “the airport crime” and “the assassination of the victory leaders,” because of the role both leaders played in the defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq, in which Iran backed its neighbor with military advice and Shia militiamen.