{"id":1204663,"date":"2022-01-10T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204663"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:50:53","slug":"statue-of-slain-iranian-commander-qassem-soleimani-torched-hours-after-it-is-unveiled-in-city-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/statue-of-slain-iranian-commander-qassem-soleimani-torched-hours-after-it-is-unveiled-in-city-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue Of Slain Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani Torched Hours After It Is Unveiled In City Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstatue-of-slain-iranian-commander-qassem-soleimani-torched-hours-after-it-is-unveiled-in-city-square%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A statue that was erected to honor Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force who was killed by U.S. forces in 2020, was torched hours after it was unveiled last week in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe six-meter high statue was set on fire hours after its official unveiling in Shahrekord, near Esfahan, where it was installed to commemorate the commander, who was killed by a US drone in Baghdad two years ago,\u201d The Telegraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/01\/06\/statue-slain-iranian-commander-qassim-soleimani-set-fire-hours\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe perpetrators were unknown, said Mohammad Ali Nekonam, a provincial representative of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling it a \u2018brazen act\u2019 of desecration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Islamic cleric Mohammad Ali Nekounam said&nbsp;\u201cthis treacherous crime was carried out in darkness, just like the other crime committed at night at Baghdad airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ResistanceUnits?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ResistanceUnits<\/a> in the city of Shahrekord (population over 200K) in central <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> torched the statue of terror master Qassem <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Soleimani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Soleimani<\/a> this evening, only hours after it was unveiled in the first square of the city. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> continue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hh5VQ3Qj4Y\">pic.twitter.com\/hh5VQ3Qj4Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_Jafarzadeh\/status\/1478875373408595968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solemani was killed in a drone strike in January 2020 at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hammer-the-just-and-proper-strike-of-mastermind-iranian-jihadist-qassem-soleimani\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>It is difficult to overstate the geopolitical and strategic ramifications of Soleimani\u2019s long-overdue demise. Aside from Osama bin Laden himself, no leading international jihadist thug has had more American blood on his hands than the decades-long veteran commander of&nbsp;Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF) \u2014 a U.S.-designated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2049534\/statement-by-the-department-of-defense\/\">Foreign Terrorist Organization<\/a>&nbsp;and umbrella organization overseeing so much regional and global evil, from Iraq to Yemen to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ctc.usma.edu\/irans-unwavering-support-to-assads-syria\/\">Syria<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hammer-defund-lebanon-and-do-it-yesterday\">Lebanon<\/a>&nbsp;to Gaza to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190109-eu-sanctions-iran-over-assassinations-peoples-mujahedeen-france-bomb-plot\">European<\/a>&nbsp;capitals to our very own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mosaicmagazine.com\/response\/jewish-world\/2019\/08\/the-men-responsible-for-the-amia-bombing-are-known-and-still-at-large\/\">western<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/man-in-iran-backed-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-gets-25-years\/2013\/05\/30\/0435e7a2-c952-11e2-8da7-d274bc611a47_story.html\">hemisphere<\/a>. From&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hammer-defund-lebanon-and-do-it-yesterday\">Hezbollah<\/a>&nbsp;to Hamas to Palestinian Islamic Jihad to Yemeni&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/houthis-explain-death-to-america-slogan-reveal-what-will-bring-them-to-peace-talks\">Houthi rebels<\/a>&nbsp;to (contra Iranian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JZarif\/status\/1212946202280579073\">propaganda<\/a>)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/19\/us\/politics\/us-iran.html\">al-Qaeda itself<\/a>, the extraterritorial tentacles of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hammer-iranian-revolution-forty-years-old-stand-josh-hammer\">inherently jihadist<\/a>&nbsp;Iranian regime are simply ubiquitous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No nation on Earth funds, sponsors, and exports more genocidal jihad than the Islamic Republic of Iran. And no one has been more responsible for that over the past 20-plus years than Qassem Soleimani. The Hudson Institute\u2019s Michael Doran is thus correct when he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/03\/opinion\/trump-iran-suleimani-assassination-baghdad.html\">writes<\/a>&nbsp;today that, \u201c[t]he killings of Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leaders of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, were certainly meaningful, but they were also largely symbolic.\u201d By contrast, Doran continues, \u201c[t]aking out the architect of the Islamic Republic\u2019s decades-long active campaign of violence against the United States and its allies, especially Israel, represents a tectonic shift in Middle Eastern politics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, who has since taken over for Solemani, vowed in remarks last week that Iran will seek revenge for Soleimani\u2019s death and that it will happen \u201cwithin\u201d the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Ghaani&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/2639872\/ground-for-hard-revenge-to-be-set-from-within-us-irgc-quds-force-commander\">said<\/a>, \u201cWe will prepare ground for the hard revenge against the US from within their homes, as we do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al-Monitor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/01\/soleimanis-replacement-vows-revenge-his-killing\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Speaking at an event commemorating the two-year anniversary of Soleimani\u2019s assassination on Jan. 3, 2020, by a US drone strike ordered by former President Donald Trump, Ghaani said, \u201cWe will get revenge that you will not forget for the rest of your life.\u201d Talking about Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who advocated for the strike behind the scenes, Ghaani said, \u201cAll of the criminals who are on the scene, from the criminal US president to all of those behind the crime of the assassination of Soleimani, are under our magnifying glass.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghaani added, \u201cWe do not have the style of [US] criminals, with divine power; we have our own style of revenge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the Biden administration tries to get Iran to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which critics argue would not stop Iran from being able to obtain a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>While the Biden administration tries to get a deal completed, a spokesperson for Iran\u2019s military stated in late November that they will not give up their pursuit of wiping Israel off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter,\u201d Brig.-Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s armed forces,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/iranian-brig-gen-urges-destruction-of-israel-prior-to-nuke-talks-687248\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the Iranian Students News Agency. \u201cWe want to destroy Zionism in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue that was erected to honor Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force who was killed by U.S. forces in 2020, was torched hours after it was unveiled last week in Iran. \u201cThe six-meter high statue was set on fire hours after its official unveiling in Shahrekord, near &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}