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Qasem Soleimani
The plane crash killed all 176 people on board, mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians.
The US president addressed the nation for the first time since ordering the killing of Iran's top general last week.
The strike on the al-Asad and Erbil bases represent the first known retaliation to Trump's killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
Destroying cultural property during armed conflict is considered a war crime under international law, one the U.S. has decried in the past.
The 2015 pact unravels after Qassem Soleimani was killed on Friday.