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Who was Qasem Soleimani? 2:32
(CNN) - Days after US President Donald Trump ordered a drone attack that killed Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran, the United States is preparing for possible reprisals by from Iran
LOOK: Minute by minute: crowds arrive in Tehran to mourn the death of military leader Soleimani
Before the attack, USA UU. He had been brought to the brink of reprisals against Iran or its representatives on multiple occasions, specifically after last summer's attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and when Iran shot down a US drone in June.
This is how the tension between the two nations has increased in recent weeks:
December 27: A rocket attack that is believed to be related to a group of Shiite militias, backed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several US and Iraqi military personnel at a nearby base from Kirkuk, Iraq.
December 29: According to the Pentagon, US forces carried out airstrikes at five facilities in Iraq and Syria controlled by a Shiite military group known as Kataib Hezbollah, the group that US officials blamed for the attack on a base near Kirkuk.
LOOK: Iran warns of "consequences" after US attacks in Iraq and Syria
December 31: Pro-Iranian protesters, protesting against US airstrikes, attacked the US embassy. UU. in Baghdad, they climbed the walls and forced the doors open.
January 3: Trump said he ordered a precision drone attack at Baghdad airport to "eliminate" Soleimani, a senior Iranian commander who planned "imminent and sinister attacks against US diplomats and military personnel." Others were killed in the attack.
January 4: Iran promised retaliation against the United States in response to the attack. If Iran points to "any American or active American," Trump has said he would make specific military attacks against Iranian cultural sites, which could amount to a war crime.
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January 5: Soleimani's body arrived in his home country, where thousands cried. Meanwhile, Major General Hossein Dehghan, the military advisor to the supreme leader of Iran, told CNN in an exclusive interview that Tehran would retaliate directly against US "military sites."
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