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President, Donald Trump said the U.S. is not killed, to start Iran 's top military commander, Qasem Soleimani ", to stop A War ".

Mr Trump said Soleimani's "reign of terror" was "over" after a strike in Iraq, the Baghdad airport on Friday.

Soleimani directed Iran Middle East operations as head of the country's Quds Force . Iran vowed "severe revenge" over his death.

The killings marked a significant escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States .

U.S. officials 3,000 additional troops said, in the Middle East as a precautionary measure.

Meanwhile, Iraqi state television said there had been another air attack in the country, 24 hours after The Killing of Soleimani. An Iraqi Army source told the Reuters news Agency that six people were killed in new strike hit a convoy of Iraqi militia in the Early Hours of Saturday Morning local time.

A U.S. military spokesman denied that the American-led coalition battles was Japanese in the region.

"the FACT is: The Coalition @CJTFOIR said the implementation of air attacks in the vicinity of Camp Taji (North of Baghdad) in the last couple of days," Colonel Myles Caggins III, in a post on Twitter.

- What has to say, President Trump?

on the occasion of a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Mr Trump said Friday the attack: "The United States military executed a flawless precision strike that killed The Number one terrorist anywhere in The World , Qassem Soleimani. "

He said: "Soleimani planned the threatening and sinister attacks on American diplomats and the military, but we caught him in The Act and stopped him. "

How to respond to Iran ?

In a statement following Soleimani, the death, the Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: "His departure to God-his nature or his mission, but a violent revenge does not wait until the end of The Criminals , The Blood and The Blood of The Other martyrs Last Night on his hands. "

The Pentagon confirmed that the US had killed forces Gen Soleimani

In a letter to the UN security Council, the Iranian Ambassador, Majid Takht Ravanchi, that Tehran reserves The Right to self-defense under International Law .

How Iraq fit into this?

Iran is supporting a variety of Shiite militias in the neighboring country of Iraq. Soleimani had just arrived at the airport of Baghdad, and traveled in a convoy in addition to the officers of such militia, if their cars several US missiles on Friday were.

the Iraqi militia leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed in The Strike . He ordered, the Kataib Hezbollah group supported by Iran - the Washington killed, the blame for rocket attack on a US civilian contractor in Northern Iraq in the past week.

Iraq is in a difficult position as an ally of Iran and the United States . To help thousands of US troops in the country in the larger fight against the Islamic state (IS) group. But the Iraqi government insists that the United States has acted, under the terms and conditions of this agreement.

Prime Minister , Adel Abdul Mahdi, as the missile strike as a "blatant violation of Iraqi sovereignty and a flagrant attack on The Nation ".

the Iraq Parliament announced it would hold an emergency meeting on Sunday. Not to let the U.S. state Department warned that Americans in Iraq "immediately".

Who was Qasem Soleimani ?

The 62-year-old was widely considered to be the second most powerful figure in Iran behind the Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei .

The Quds Force , an elite unit of the Iranian revolutionary guards (IRGC) that reports directly to the ayatollah, and Soleimani, was celebrated as a heroic national figure.

In his 21-year leadership of the Quds Force , Iran , Hezbollah, and other strengthened pro-Iranian militant groups in Lebanon; expanded its military presence in Iraq and Syria; and-staged-Syria-offensive against the rebels in this country's long Civil War .

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Source of news: bbc.com