Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed that those who took part and the person who ordered the killing of Iranian Chief General Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant will not go unpunished.

The supreme leader via his Twitter account on late Thursday warned that no escape from payback for the US strike outside Baghdad airport which killed Iran’s storied foreign operations chief General Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant

He said “Revenge is inevitable. Soleimani’s killer and the man who gave the orders must face vengeance.

He added that “Revenge can take place at any moment.”

It was disclosed that Iranian officials have pledged repeatedly that Soleimani’s death would be avenged.

 Earlier this month, on the first anniversary of his killing, judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi warned that not even Trump was “immune from justice” and that Soleimani’s killers would “not be safe anywhere in the world”.