The successor to the Iranian commander killed in a U.S. drone strike would suffer the same fate if he followed a similar path by killing Americans, the U.S. special representative for
Iran said, according to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Washington blamed General Qassem Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.
U.S. President
Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 3 drone strike in
Iraq after an escalation that began last month with
missile strikes that killed an
American contractor, which
Washington blamed on an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq.