New IRGC Quds Force chief: Iran dealt US a first slap by striking American bases in Iraq

The newly-appointed head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Quds Force says Iran dealt the US “a first slap” by striking two American bases in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of his predecessor, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. “With God’s blessing, the first slap was decisively delivered to the world’s largest capitalist power,” Brigadier General Esmail Qaani said in a message addressed to...