Two years after the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran has made it clear that it does not intend to move on with the assassination of the senior security figure who was No. 2 in Iran and a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has vowed to avenge the death of Qassem Suleimani and on January 3 demanded the prosecution of former US President Donald Trump who approved Suleimani's assassination.

In recent days, pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have stepped up their attacks with rockets and drones on US bases in Iraq, the US embassy compound in Baghdad and US bases in Syria, in an attempt to kill American soldiers and civilians in retaliation for Suleimani assassination.

However the Iranian trend is clear, Iran is stepping up its war of attrition against the US military presence in Iraq and Syria to carry out the “Iranian punishment” for the assassination of Qassem Suleimani and is the humiliating expulsion of the US from Iraq and Syria.

"In the near future there will not be a single American soldier left in Iraq or Syria," Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Muhammad Jalal Prussia announced on January 3.

Iran's escalation against US targets comes despite Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Katami's announcement of the withdrawal of recent foreign combat forces from Iraq and the restriction of the remaining forces' activities to the Iraqi army's training and training missions in the war against ISIS.