Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami highlighted the country’s recent moves to thwart US plots and said the Islamic Republic has proven its power to counter foreign and domestic threats at any level.

“It is enough that he was practically the one who created what is now called the axis of resistance,” Hajj Sadiq, Hezbollah field commander who used to accompany martyr Qassem Suleimani on his jihadi rounds, told Al-Ahed news website.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah spoke Sunday in a ceremony marking one week on the martyrdom of Haj Qassem Suleimani, Haj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandes and their companions with a US drone attack on their convoy in Baghdad.

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Aerospace Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh expressed regrets for he unintentional downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane earlier this week, stressing that the Iranian Armed Forces assume full responsibilities in this regard.

The daughter of the head of the IRGC Al-Quds Force Martyr Qassem Suleimani, Zeinab, stressed Friday that thousands of Suliamnis are ready to march on to the White House, adding that the US crime of assassinating her father is a folly that may never weaken Iran.

The fingerprint of martyr General Qassem Suleimani was all over the Axis of Resistance, Secretary General of Islamic Jihad Palestinian resistance group Ziad Nakhale said.

In an extraordinary session on Sunday, 170 Iraqi lawmakers signed a draft law requiring the government to request the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly condemned the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, calling them the “heroes of fight against Daesh” terrorist group.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to call for revenge after US assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. 

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has vehemently condemned the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), in US airstrikes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Iran's General Staff of Armed Forces has issued a statement vowing that elements behind the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani will face a punishing response.

Describing General Qassem Suleimani as the “master of Resistance Axis’ martyrs,” Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed that avenging the commander of IRGC’s Quds Force is the responsibility and duty of all resistance mujahidin around the world.