On February 15, Hezbollah unveiled a giant statue of Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in January in a US airstrike, was unveiled in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel.
The figure of the killed Quds Force leader was put up in the border village of Maroun al-Ras. It became a part of the “resistance museum.”
WATCH: #Hezbollah unveils a statue of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Lebanon.
He is pointing towards Israel. His ultimate goal was to destroy Israel. He failed. #Iran pic.twitter.com/rTNtefWwBY
— ?FNR- FRUM NEWS REPORT? (@FrumNewsReport) February 16, 2020
Soleimani and several other prominent Iranian and Iraqi commanders were killed in a US strike outside Baghdad’s International Airport on January 3. This US move put the entire region on the brink of an open military conflict, caused a wide-scale crisis and eventually undermined the positions of the US in the region.
