US officials have confirmed to Reuters

The attack was on a vehicle convoy at the airport.

Reports are of the deaths of:

Qassem Soleimani

  • an Iranian Major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
  • head of the IRGC

Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis

  • an Iraqi-Iranian military commander who heads the Popular Mobilisation Committee

If so, a major escalation.

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