Iran�s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the US committed a grave mistake by assassinating top Iranian commander Lt. General Soleimani in a cowardly manner.

�By cowardly assassinating Gen Soleimani, US committed a grave mistake,� the Foreign Ministry said in a post on its Twitter account.

�Iraqi MPs' vote to expel US troops is the beginning of the end of the malign presence (of the US) in our region,� it added.

�Our region has suffered enough by the interventions of the US outlaw regime,� said the post.

On January 3, a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport assassinated General Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran�s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. The attack � that also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq�s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror group, along with several others� came while General Soleimani was on an official visit to the Iraqi capital.