Iranian officials quickly vowed to take revenge amid months of tensions between Iran and the U.S. More recently, rumors circulated in November 2015 that Soleimani was killed or seriously wounded leading forces loyal to Assad as they fought around Syria’s Aleppo. Those incidents included a 2006 airplane crash that killed other military officials in northwestern Iran and a 2012 bombing in Damascus that killed top aides of Assad.
Soleimani’s luck ran out after being rumored dead several times in his life. personnel abroad by killing” a man once referred to by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a “living martyr of the revolution.” military to take “decisive defensive action to protect U.S. The Pentagon said President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. airstrike killed Soleimani, 62, and others as they traveled from Baghdad’s international airport early Friday morning. The warfront was the lost paradise of the human beings, indeed.”Ī U.S. “One type of paradise that is portrayed for mankind is streams, beautiful nymphs and greeneries. “The warfront is mankind’s lost paradise,” Soleimani said in a 2009 interview. By the time it came a decade and a half later, Soleimani had become Iran’s most recognizable battlefield commander, ignoring calls to enter politics but becoming as powerful, if not more, than its civilian leadership. invasion of Iraq, Soleimani’s popularity and mystique grew out of American officials calling for his killing. Relatively unknown in Iran until the 2003 U.S. Authorities said Soleimani survived an attempt on his life in September 2019. Qassim Soleimani attends a meeting of a group of the Guard members with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Oct.
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