People and government of Iran pay tribute to General Qasem Soleimani

Iran commemorated the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani with official ceremonies held in Tehran. teleSUR

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00:00And Iran commemorates the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani

00:05with official ceremonies in Tehran.

00:08Under the slogan, Men of Iran, thousands of citizens and high-ranking officials

00:13remember the former commander in an atmosphere of mourning and religious devotion.

00:19During the ceremony, Iranian President Masoud Pesekian highlighted Soleimani's figure

00:24as a living role model for freedom seekers and defenders of justice.

00:28Pesekian also condemned the United States and Israel for perpetrating state terrorism

00:34under the pretext of civilization, democracy and supposed freedom.

00:40The president stated that they are targeting those seeking global freedom such as Soleimani,

00:46engineer Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, scientists, military commanders and other prominent figures.

00:58Qasem Soleimani was born on March 12 of 1957 and grew up in a peasant family in southeastern Iran's Kerman province.

01:09It was with the 1980s Iran-Iraq war that Soleimani quickly emerged as an important military figure

01:16in the newly established Islamic Republic.

01:19And between 1997 and 1998, he took command of the Quds forces, an elite unit in charge of protecting the revolution

01:26beyond Iran's border.

01:28He was killed on January 3, 2020, by a U.S. strike that had been ordered by President Donald Trump

01:36at Baghdad's international airport in an attack denounced as a violation of international law

01:41and described by Iran as an act of state terrorism.