The Israeli occupation was involved in the assassination of former Islamic Revolution's Guard Corps (IRGC) al-Quds Corps commander martyr Qassem Soleimani, former IOF intelligence chief revealed Monday.

Hayman spoke with Malam magazine, published by the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center. He described the assassination as one of "two significant and important assassinations" during his tenure. The other one is Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata. 

Martyr Soleimani's assassination, he said, was "an achievement." 

Kazem Gharib Abadi, Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary-General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, announced that Tehran would host the second round of meetings of the Iranian-Iraqi Joint Investigation Committee on the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and his companions.

In a press statement on Sunday, Gharib Abadi that this round would last for two days and senior judicial officials from Iran and Iraq would attend it.

On January 3, 2020, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, were targeted by a US missile strike near Baghdad International Airport.