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Iran marks anniversary of Soleimani assassination with a song in Farsi, Hebrew and Arabic

In the video, which was aired by Iran’s Channel 1 TV, singers wearing IRGC uniforms call to “blow up the den of Satan” and chant “death to America! Death to Israel!”

A martyrs’ “summit meeting”: IRGC Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Source: Iranian media.
A martyrs’ “summit meeting”: IRGC Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Source: Iranian media.

In honor of the one-year anniversary of the assassination in Baghdad of Iran’s Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani and militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iran’s Channel 1 TV aired Farsi-Arabic-Hebrew song titled, “The Promise of a Hero.”

The singers, who are dressed in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps uniforms, pledge revenge for Soleimani and al-Muhandis, “the martyrs of Islam.”

“Let us blow up the den of Satan [...] Victory shall be ours. It is the responsibility of [Esmail] Ghaani,” Soleimani’s successor as commander of the Quds Force.

“We shall not allow the colonialists to stay on our land,” the singers continue, repeatedly chanting: “Death to America! Death to Israel!”

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