Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Alas, Soleimani Is Dead



Iraqi TV confirmed the assassination of the head of #Iran’s International Terrorists Units, aka the Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani. Also liquidated was the head of the Iraqi Hezbollah - Abu Mahdi Muhandis responsible for the riot near the US Embassy. 
US Admin's assassination of Iranian Terror Godfather Qassem Soleimani accompanied by the following accomplishments:
-Senior Iraqi PMF leader killed
-Deputy leader of Lebanon Hezbollah has also been killed
-US Marines arrested leaders of most powerful pro-Iranian militias in Iraq

Taken from Noor Dahri:
What I see and assess the current situation and the Iranian retaliation. 
Iran has no enough capability to directly attack Israel or the US. Iran may use its proxies against those countries but chances are less because Iran is weak financially and can’t afford the war against those two superpower states. 
Most probably, Iran will take revenge from Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, etc. If this happens, then KSA will seek direct help from the US and indirect help from Israel to defend the kingdom.
This is the real face of Iran in the Middle East. 
“The Iran of today does not have the geographical constraints of the past. Today Iran is also the PMU of Iraq, Lebanon’s Hizbullah, Ansarullah in Yemen, Syria’s National Front, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. All of these have come to represent Iran and therefore Iran is no longer just us. The sayyid of the resistance declared that the region’s resistance has one leader and that leader is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.” (Ayatollah Ahmad Alam ol-Hoda, Supreme Leader’s Representative in Khorasan Razavi Province, 2019)
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Who was Qassem Sulaimani?
Sulaimani was a butcher and an instrument of Iranian proxy violence terrorizing millions in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, etc. One of his main roles was to supply Hezbollah with a constant supply of missiles and rockets, while also quietly deploying 50,000 Iranian military to Syria in support of the brutal Assad regime. He was instrumental in the ongoing tragedy in Yemen though Iran’s direct support for the Houthis. His role in preventing ISIS from entering Iran can be largely attributed to the Sunni-Shia divide (ISIS is Sunni, Iran an avid Shia regime). His role in fighting ISIS in Syria had more to do with supporting the Assad regime and ending a rival Sunni group that was directly treating its own regional hegemony; rather than Sulaimani being concerned about peace and the safety of the ordinary people. As he engaged in these foreign measures, he was the leader of the notorious Quds forces terrorizing, executing, spying and kidnapping pro-democracy, women’s rights and human rights forces inside Iran.  

Hundreds of thousands have died as a result of Sulaimani’s role carrying out Iran’s regional objectives. His involvement in these countries had a direct impact on the democratic aspirations of the Kurds, Syrians, Iranians and other oppressed minorities in the region. 

The Quds Force headed by Soleimani since the late 1990s is part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization in April, the first time an official branch of a foreign government was given that label. Under Soleimani, the irregular Quds Force trained and supported militias loyal to Tehran throughout the Middle East. 
The U.S. says the Quds Force began training Iraqi militants to kill American troops in Iraq after the 2003 invasion and taught them how to make powerful roadside bombs. 
The U.S. blames Soleimani for 603 U.S. service members killed in Iraq, in addition to thousands of others in the region. 
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When Iran shot down a US drone it wasn’t a provocation.
When Iran captured US sailors and paraded them on tv it wasn’t a provocation
When the IRGC masterminded the murder of US troops in Afghanistan & Iraq it wasn’t a provocation......but the US kill a terrorist mastermind then it becomes a provocation. So many experts on Iran.

Credit: @KasimHafeez

On Dec. 27, a barrage of rockets killed an American contractor and wounded four U.S. service members on a base in northeastern Iraq. The U.S. blamed the attack on an Iranian-backed militia with ties to Iran's elite Quds Force led by Soleimani and responded Dec. 29 with strikes on five targets in Iraq and Syria that left at least two dozen militia fighters dead. 
Angry protesters led by a larger umbrella group of Shiite militias answered that attack by storming the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. They forced their way into the compound and set fire to a reception area before eventually being driven off by security forces on Tuesday. There were no casualties in the embassy breach, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called an "Iran-backed terrorist attack."
Early Friday morning, Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike at the airport in Baghdad. Administration officials said Soleimani was plotting attacks on Americans in the Middle East and that he presented an imminent threat.