Iran parliament speaker visits graves of allied fighters in Iraq

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Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, to pay tribute to the graves of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and other members of Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups. This visit occurred during the third day of a trip by an Iranian parliamentary delegation to the country. Al-Muhandis, the former deputy commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, was killed alongside Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in January 2020.

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