Iran’s parliament speaker has paid tribute to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis during a visit to Iraq, according to Iran’s Student News Network. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf visited al-Muhandis’s grave at Wadi al-Salam cemetery in the Iraqi city of Najaf on the third day of a trip by an Iranian parliamentary delegation. The speaker also visited the burial sites of other members of Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups, the network reported. Al-Muhandis served as deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella organisation of armed groups established during the fight against ISIL. A US drone strike killed him and Iran’s general, Qassem Soleimani, near Baghdad International Airport in January 2020.
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