Iran's FM Says ISIS Only beneficiary of Soleimani’s Assassination

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the ISIS (Daesh) terrorist group was the only beneficiary of the the US assassination of Iranian top commander Qassem Soleimani.

On his Twitter account, Zarif said that the ISIS has been the only beneficiary of cowardly assassination of General Soleimani by the US as the move caused the terrorist outfit to intensify its activities in the region.

Lieutenant General Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020.

The airstrike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The two were assassinated in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.

Five Iranian and five Iraqi military men were martyred by the missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.

On January 8 and after the funeral ceremony of General Soleimani, the IRGC Aerospace Force started heavy ballistic missile attacks on US Ein Al-Assad airbase in Southwestern Iraq near the border with Syria and a US operated airbase in Erbil in retaliation for the US assassination of General Soleimani.

Ein Al-Assad is an airbase with a 4km runway at 188m altitude from sea levels, which is the main and the largest US airbase in Iraq.

Early reports said the radar systems and missile defense shields in Ein Al-Assad failed to operate and intercept the Iranian missiles. Unofficial reports said the US army's central radar systems at Ein Al-Assad had been jammed by electronic warfare.