![(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 22, 2018 shows members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) marching during the annual military parade which markins the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran. Iran's top security body called an urgent meeting on January 3, 2020 over the "martyrdom" of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by the United States in Baghdad, semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The United States announced earlier that it had killed the commander of the Islamic republic's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, in a strike on Baghdad's international airport early on Friday. / AFP / afp / STRINGER](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/PYCVQRKFBGWULYDTSV2JU35DUA.jpg?smart=true&auth=c4c7abd7f65333beb6ad37d9642dbde6fa7e985aa0582af06fe7c8fd53a42f9a&width=400&height=225)
The commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was wounded in a bombing. AFP
The commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was wounded in a bombing. AFP
IRGC commander wounded in roadside bombing, state media says
Local officials blamed a terror group linked to Al Qaeda
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30 June, 2020