Senior Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was killed in an American drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport on Thursday.
The assassination came after a week of U.S.-Iranian conflict in Iraq. First, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia killed one American civilian defense contractor and wounded several American soldiers in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base in Kirkuk. The U.S. responded with airstrikes on fighters loyal to Kataib Hezbollah, a Shiite Iraqi militia linked to Tehran.
Zakharova told Rossiya 24 the U.S. has requested that the United Nations Security Council assess the attack on its Baghdad embassy, but that the request was only made after Soleimani was killed. The spokesperson also predicted that the U.S. attack—which has prompted furious vows of retaliation from the regime in Tehran—would"not result in anything but escalating tensions in the region, which will be sure to affect millions of people."
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