'This is very difficult news, a harbinger of new clashes between the Americans and radical Shiites in Iraq,' Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev said Friday.
Kosachev added that the U.S. government's killing of Soleimani"looks very much like the revenge of the Americans" for the storming of the embassy in Baghdad by an Iran-backed militia group.
Kosachev is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federation Council, Russia's upper parliamentary chamber. The United States has, to a certain extent, benefited from Iran's support for militia groups helping to push back against ISIS. However, more broadly, Soleimani was viewed as a brutal figure who American officials blame for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and allies. General David Petraeus, who formerly led the U.S. military presence in Iraq, called Soleimani"truly evil" in a 2008 letter.
Following the strike, Trump also claimed that"Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel," noting that military officials"caught him in the act and terminated him."
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