
Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani Expressway, formerly called Resalat Expressway, is an east-west
expressway in
Tehran
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,
Iran
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.
It joins the eastern localities of
Tehran metropolis, including
Resalat District, to
Seyed Khandan in north-central Tehran and further to western parts of the
Greater Tehran.
The Resalat Tunnel was opened by
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian Iranian principlists, principlist and Iranian nationalism, nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a mem ...
with newlyweds being the first to drive through it. Upon praying in the tunnel at its re-opening,
Rageh Omaar of the BBC prayed on the same prayer mat as Ahmadinejad at the same time.
The expressway was renamed to
Shahid
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Sardar
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Qasem Soleimani Expressway, following the
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was Targeted killing, killed by an American drone strike ordered by U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, while travelling to meet Iraqi prime mi ...
by an
American airstrike.
References
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