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Foreign Desk
The world may be shocked to know that US military unsuccessfully tried to kill a senior Iranian military official in Yemen on the same day when it killed the most powerful Iranian commander General Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad through drone strike. It has been revealed by NYT news service in America.
The disclosure of a second mission indicated that the US administration had plans for a broader campaign intended to cripple Iran’s ability to carry out proxy wars in other countries. After Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes on US troops in Iraq, both Washington and Tehran appear to have stopped from escalating the conflict further.
The unsuccessful airstrike in Yemen was aimed at Abdul Reza Shahlai, an official of Iran’s Quds Force, a potent paramilitary organisation that Suleimani had led, was known as a main organizer of financing for Shiite militias in the region.
Though President Donald Trump approved the strike against Shahlai in the same period but it is not clear that the both attack occurred concurrently.
American officials told that Shahlai and Suleimani were two of several Iranian officials, the administration targeted in an effort to halt Iran-backed attacks on sites with Americans and to deter Iran from ramping up aggression in the region. United States had offered a $15 million reward for information about Shahlai.
