Qasem Soleimani statue torched in western Iran
This is not the first time a statue of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani has been torched in Iran.
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Statue of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Shahrekord, Iran, January 2022
(photo credit: Fatemeh Bayati/Mehr News Agency)
A statue
of former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force
commander Qasem Soleimani was torched on Wednesday night by unidentified
individuals in Shahrekord in western Iran, according to the Iranian
ISNA news agency.
Soleimani was assassinated by a US drone strike next to the Baghdad
International Airport on January 3, 2020. The second anniversary of the
assassination was marked this week.
Video reportedly from the scene on Wednesday night showed the statue engulfed in a pillar of fire in the middle of a roundabout.
Mohammad
Ali Nekounam, the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the
Friday prayer leader of Shahrekord, compared the burning of the statue
to the assassination of Soleimani, saying "this crime in the dark of
night is like the same crime in Baghdad airport that in the privacy of
the night and at the height of cowardice, and it will make Hajj Qasim
position in the hearts more stable."
Statue of former IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani in Jiroft, Iran (credit: HOSSEIN NADERI/IRNA)
The
statue of Soleimani had just been unveiled on Wednesday morning. The
six-meter tall statue was worth about 150 million Tomans or about
$35,500, according to ISNA.
This is not the first time a statue of the former Quds Force commander has been torched in Iran.
In August of last year, a statue of Soleimani was torched in the city of Yasuj in southwestern Iran.
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