Qasem Soleimani
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Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قَاسِمُ سَلَىمَانَى; 11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and war criminal(allegedly). From 1998 until his death in 2020, he was commander of the IRGC's Quds Force. He was born in Qanat-e Malek, Kerman. He began his military career in the 1980s Iran–Iraq War. He later helped command efforts against the Sunni Islamist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014–15, in which he also in the name of fighting ISIS and through Shia militias committed war crimes against Sunnis in Iraq and Syria.[1][2][3][4][5]
On 3 January 2020, Soleimani was killed in an airstrike near Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S.-ordered airstrike also killed others, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.[6] His daughter Zeinab would make a fiery speech warning the US of the consequences of killing her father.[7]
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Qasem Soleimani received Zolfaghar Order from Ali Khamenei 1
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Map of Al-Qusayr and its environs. The Al-Qusayr offensive was reportedly orchestrated by Soleimani.
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Map of the 2015 Aleppo offensives
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A map of Saladin Governorate in Iraq. Soleimani was involved in breaking the Siege of Amirli by ISIL in the eastern part of the governorate.
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Soleimani praying in the Syrian Desert in 2017
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Soleimani speaking at International Day of Mosque conference
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Mourners at Azadi Square, Tehran
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Soleimani's grave. He had asked for a simple gravestone "similar to [his] shahid comrades" and without any honorific title inscribed along his name.
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Commemoration ceremony (anniversary) of "Qasem-Soleimani", in Tehran
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- ↑ Berger, Miriam (2020-01-03). "Qasem Soleimani helped shape the brutality of the Syrian war" (in en-US). Washington Post. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/03/qasem-soleimani-helped-shape-brutality-syrian-war/. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
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- ↑ U.S. says it kills top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike. Reuters. 3 January 2020. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast/us-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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