Lt. General Sloleimani, Commander of IRGC Quds Brigade, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were martyred in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 3.
Iran had named its Rio Paralympic team "Mina" in honor of the Hajj pilgrims who were killed in the fatal stampede at Mina in Saudi Arabia.
The 2020 Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo from August 25 to September 6.