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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stands next to the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, and the IRGC's Quds Force commander, Esmail Qaani, during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Major General Qassem Soleimani's death at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 2, 2025. Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's IRGC Quds Force, is killed by an American drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in central Iraq on January 3, 2020. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)