Shafaq News / An informed source revealed that the investigation committee for the assassination of the deputy chief of Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and the Iranian Leader Qassem Soleimani, had received accusations that a telecommunications company of "getting involved in the operation."

The source said to Shafaq News agency, "The committee received documents by leaders of Al-Hashd accusing a mobile phone company of being involved in the assassination by providing the US Army Command at the Victoria base at Baghdad Airport with the mobile database of one of Al-Muhandis’s guards who was assassinated during the air strike."

The source pointed out that "the American leadership obtained sufficient information through the phone of the location of the Al-Hashd leader and his meeting with Soleimani, which ease the assassination.”

In early January, an American missile strike targeted three vehicles carrying Soleimani and Al-Muhandis, which resulted in their immediate death.