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USA vs Iran conflict

January 6 , 2020 1809 days 1307 0
  • The US army killed Iran’s most powerful military commander General Qasem Soleimani.
  • He was killed at Baghdad airport of Iraq.
  • He was the head of Quds Force.
  • Quds is the Arabic word for Jerusalem.
  • It is the overseas operations wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation.
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set up the IRGC in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution ended to protect the Islamic order of the new Iranian government.

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