Tehran (IP) - Tehran's Interim Friday Prayer Leader said that Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani cleared the region from ISIS terrorists, enhanced the West Asia's security, and spread the culture of resistance throughout the region.

Iran Press/Iran news: Tehran's Interim Friday Prayer Leader Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari said at the Friday Prayer sermons that Lieutenant-General Soleimani's strategic depth in the resistance axis ensured Iran's security and promoted the world's security.

Haj Ali Akbari stressed that security is the result of the active resistance in the region.

Following the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini's thought, Lieutenant-General Soleimani brought up faithful, brave, and thoughtful young people throughout the region, he added.

The top cleric noted that martyrdom of Lieutenant-General Soleimani and his companions, mingled with the Islamic Ummah's insight and the people's united presence became a turning point in the history of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Resistance in the region.

Tehran's Interim Friday Prayer Leader stressed that Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani supported all the rings of the resistance and made the resistance front to contribute to the security of the region and spread the culture of resistance all across the region.

The late Commander of Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani, who had traveled to Iraq on the official invitation of the Iraqi officials, was assassinated by the US air-raid in Baghdad on January 3, 2020, along with the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and 8 companions.

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