"Trump will realize that he was defeated when the U.S soldiers' coffins begin piling up," Nasrallah said.

Emphasizing that the assassination of Suleimani's death was not only a matter of Iran, Nasrallah said: "The US bases, warships and American soldiers are now on our target."

On 3 January 2020, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran, the U.S. launched a drone strike on a convoy traveling near Baghdad International Airport, killing ten passengers, including Iranian major general and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Forces commander Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces commander Abu Mahdi al- Muhandis, four senior Iranian officers and four Iraqi officers.

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