July 2020. Iran’s supreme leader told Iraq’s visiting premier on Tuesday that Tehran will exact revenge from the US over the killing of a top general earlier this year, but said his country will not interfere in Baghdad’s relations with Washington. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi of Iraq met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Iranian capital during his first trip abroad since taking office. Kamenei warned that the US presence next door to the Islamic Republic was a cause of insecurity and pointed to the US killing of Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani in a January drone strike in Baghdad, after which parliament voted to expel US troops. “They killed your guest in your house and blatantly confessed to it,” the Iranian leader said, according to his official website. Iran “will never forget this and will certainly deal a reciprocal blow to the Americans,” Khamenei said.
Jul 2020. Crisis in Iraq
