Top Iran security body calls urgent meeting after Soleimani ‘martyrdom’
FILE – In this Friday, March 27, 2015, file photo provided by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani prays in a religious ceremony at a mosque in the residence of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that Soleimani has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)
Tehran, Iran — Iran’s top security body called an urgent meeting Friday over the “martyrdom” of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad, semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
“In a few hours, an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme National Security Council will be held to review the murderous attack on the vehicle of General Soleimani in Baghdad that lead to his martyrdom,” ISNA quoted its secretariat spokesman Keyvan Khosravi as saying.
