Following the killing by the U.S. of Iran’s Qods Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, a senior IRGC Navy official stressed that “the IRGC Navy is prepared and waiting impatiently to continue the causes and goals for which Hajj Qassem was martyred, take the big revenge from the criminals, culprits and supporters of this crime and unveil the revolutionary wrath of the Islamic world towards the Zionist [ie, Israeli] and U.S. stream and it is standing the order to start execution of the guidelines and teachings of the Supreme Leader”.