The US killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Tehran's resistance, a senior commander said on Friday at a televised event to mark the anniversary at Tehran University.
Washington killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2020. Washington had accused him of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on US forces in the region.
Days after the US drone strike, Iran retaliated with a rocket attack on an Iraqi air base where US forces were stationed, and Iranian forces on high alert mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner taking off from Tehran.
Esmail Ghaani who succeeded Soleimani as head the elite Quds force, said Iran was still ready to respond, Reuters reported.
"From inside your own house, there may emerge someone who will retaliate for your crime," he said
"American mischief will not deter the Quds force from carrying on its resistance path," he added.
For his part, Iran's judiciary chief, also speaking at the event to pay tribute to Soleimani, warned Friday that Soleimani's killers will "not be safe on Earth."
Ebrahim Raisi said not even US President Donald Trump, who ordered the strike, was "immune from justice".
"They will witness a severe revenge. What has come so far has only been glimpses" of it, Raisi said, according to AFP.
"Do not presume that someone, as the president of America, who appeared as a murderer or ordered a murder, may be immune from justice being carried out. Never," he said.
"Those who had a role in this in this assassination and crime will not be safe on Earth."
