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Iran’s top judge Ebrahim Raisi says the Judiciary in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will file a complaint against US President Donald Trump for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States and its friends are behind unrest in the Middle East, and regional states must reject its presence.

Spokesman for the Iranian Government Ali Rabiei says that the US officials are afraid that the resistance groups in the region will take revenge on them, but Iran has not recommended anyone take proxy measures against the US.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has strongly condemned the fresh sanctions that the US has imposed on Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says a 10-member Canadian delegation is coming to Iran in order to deal with the Canadian victims of the Wednesday crash.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on the European Union to adopt its own stances independent of the United States and to try not to disappoint Iran’s expectations.

Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne had a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday morning.

A top military advisor to the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution says the intelligence agencies of the US and Israel were behind the assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the US feet will be cut off from the region in retaliation for the hand they cut off from General Soleimani’s body.

Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei says the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) managed to hit the centre of US terrorism in the region in response to the US assassination of top general Qassem Soleimani.

Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US' "corruption-spreading" presence in the region must end, and that is what regional countries want.

Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami has warned that the country will set fire to the places Americans love if Washington decides to respond to Iran’s revenge for General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told UN Secretary General that Washington didn’t have enough time to issue a visa for Iran’s foreign minister to attend a UN meeting, said Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday.

Iranian MPs on Tuesday voted for a triple-urgency motion, dubbed the Harsh Revenge Motion, which designates Pentagon and those involved in the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani as terrorists and adds them to the list of Iran’s sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country still calls on regional states to join hands and promote peace, despite its promise to take revenge from the US for assassinating senior commander General Qassem Soleimani.

Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei has lashed out at the "undemocratic" move by Instagram to remove the posts shared about Iranian senior commander General Qassem Soleimani, who was recently assassinated in a US airstrike in Iraq.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on US President Donald Trump to stop listening to the “clowns” advising him on the region.

A senior advisor to Iran’s Leader, Ali Akbar Velayati, has warned that the United States’ refusal to leave the region will cause another Vietnam war to come.

A member of the national security and foreign policy commission in the Iranian Parliament says a double-urgency motion has been prepared to declare the US military forces throughout the world as “terrorist.”

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani was tantamount to the military coup orchestrated by the US and the UK back in 1953, which overthrew the democratically-elected government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force says the American aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf are no more deemed to be threats against Iran, and have turned into easy targets for the Iranian missiles instead.

A senior Iranian commander says the US is not courageous enough to carry out its threat to hit 52 Iranian sites.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassador of Switzerland which represents US interests in Iran over the recent threats by American President Donald Trump.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lashed out at US President Donald Trump for threatening to target Iran’s cultural sites, saying such a move is a war crime according to the international law.

IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami says vengeance for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani will put an end to the US presence in the Middle East region.