With Soleimani dead, the world is safer, but it’s not enough. by

With Soleimani dead, the world is safer, but it’s not enough. -On January 3, 2020, near Baghdad’s airport, a U.S. air raid targeted Qasem Soleimani, commander of Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGCs) terrorist arm. He was killed instantly. To understand how important this is, one needs to understand who Qasem Soleimani (1957-2020) was. Soleimani, a one-time construction worker and weightlifter, joined the IRGC after the 1979 revolution and soon headed one of the IRGCs main cadres. Khomeini assigned Soleimani to suppress a Kurdish movement in Mahabad, Western Azerbaijan. Soleimani’s brutality earned him command over a Quds Guard Corps unit in Kerman. The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) gave Soleimani opportunities…

This information appeard first at https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3805668/posts