by Sophie Mann at Just the News
Israel’s former military intelligence chief has for the first time acknowledged his country’s involvement in the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in early 2020.
Soleimani, who headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, was killed by a drone strike at the Baghdad airport in January 2020.
Following the assassination, NBC News reported that Israeli intelligence had helped confirm the details of Soleimani’s whereabouts, details which it shared with the U.S.
Major General Tamir Heyman, the recently retired head of military intelligence, has now become the first official to confirm Israel’s involvement in the strike.
In a recently published interview in a Hebrew-language magazine that closely affiliates with the Israel intelligence services, Heyman said, “Assassinating Soleimani was an an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, are the Iranians.”
He said that there were “two significant and important assassinations during my term” as chief of army intelligence.
“The first, as I’ve already recalled, is that of Qassem Soleimani. It’s rare to locate someone so senior, who is the architect of the fighting force, the strategist and the operator. It’s rare,” he said, noting that Soleimani was one of the main drivers of “Iranian entrenchment” in Syria.
Israel frequently carries out airstrikes in Syria…
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