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Lebanese army vehicles drive past a banner for the Lebanese Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah with text in Arabic reading "the flag will not fall" and showing the faces of the late (R to L) Islamic Republic of Iran's founder Imam Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)'s "Quds Force" Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iraq's Hashed Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and Hezbollah commanders Mustafa Badreddine and Imad Mughniyeh; along a road while on patrol in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, on May 15, 2022 during the national parliamentary elections. - Iran's Imam Khomeini died of natural causes in Tehran in 1989. Soleimani and al-Muhandis were assassinated together in early 2020 by a targeted US drone strike near Iraq's Baghdad International Airport. Badreddine was killed by an explosion in 2016 near Syria's Damascus International Airport. Mughniyeh as assassinated in a car bomb explosion in 2008 in Syria's capital Damascus. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)