At least one confirmed killed in US airstrike in Syria in response to Erbil rocket strikes; IRGC-Backed Iraqi group claims attack on Turkish forces, but not confirmation yet; joint Iran-Russia naval drill in Arabian Sea
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Month: February 2021
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Intelligence Minister implicates IRGC mole in Fakhrizadeh assassination; cancellation of Qalibaf meeting with Putin controversy; Iran Judiciary chief visits Iraq; recent Iran-Taliban talks; Huthi terror delisting reactions; Slim assassination; Huthi offensive in central Yemen
Hezbollah won’t avenge Qasem Soleimani’s death—for now
This article originally appeared in Atlantic Council’s Iran Source on February 8, 2021. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah remains committed to avenging Qasem Soleimani’s death—at least rhetorically. Shortly after the United States assassinated the Quds Force commander in January 2020, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed that US troops “who came to the region vertically will return home horizontally.” His hand gesture—a horizontal hand affixed perpendicularly over a vertical hand—representing US forces returning home in coffins became the official symbol of Iran and the Resistance Axis’ promised “Hard Revenge.” Nevertheless, at the time of Soleimani’s…