New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: A day after the US killed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Commander General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike near Baghdad, the US forces on Saturday carried out a fresh strike against pro-Iran fighters in Iraq and killed at least six fighters.
This comes hours ahead of the planned funneral of Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary heavyweight Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, slain in a precision drone strike by the US in Baghdad on Friday.
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The US on Friday killed Soleimani and seven others in a drone strikes near the Baghdad International Airpot. The assassination was the most dramatic escalation yet in spiralling tensions between Iran and the US.
The US had justified the killing of Soleimani. US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the "reign of terror is over" and claimed that he was responsible for terrorist plots in New Delhi and London.
"Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion, contributing to terrorist plots as far away as New Delhi and London," Trump said on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Flordia.
"Today we remember and honour the victims of Soleimani's many atrocities and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over," he added.
The US has also issued a travel advisory to its nationals in Iraq asking them to depart immediately due to the heightened tensions following the killing of Iran's elite Quds Force chief General Qassem Soleimani.
"US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land," read a statement by the Embassy.
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It has also decided to deploy thousands of additional troops to the Middle East. Pentagon has also confirmed the additional deployment of troops from a US' Immediate Response Force unit, reported CNN.
Meanwhile, Iran has of "severe revenge" and said arch-enemy the United States bore responsiblity for the consequences after killing one of its top commanders.
The strike against Soleimani came days after the US President threatened Tehran after Iraqi supporters of pro-Iranian regime factions laid siege to the US embassy in Baghdad, following deadly American air strikes on a hardline Hashed faction.
(With agency inputs)