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Qassem Soleimani's death is a turning point in the Middle East crisis

Posted on 01/09/2020 7:42:44 AM PST by hassan.mahmoud

By Hassan Mahmoudi

On January 2, 2020, Qassem Soleimani, the notorious commander of Iran’s terrorist Quds Force was killed by a U.S.-led airstrike in the Baghdad International Airport.

Soleimani, as a major general, was the second person in the Iranian regime and was a hated figure among the vast majority of Iranians.
During uprisings in Iran in 2018 and 2019, protesters tore up and torched his posters in different cities.

Some in the west, especially in the mainstream media, for political purposes, have been trying to portray Soleimani as if he was a “Hero for the Iranian people”, or a “genius and strategist”.
The goal of this propaganda is to undermine his elimination by the Trump administration.

The fact is that Soleimani was neither a “Hero” nor a “genius”; he was just a cruel, and merciless person who would follow the orders of the regime’s Supreme leader with maximum brutality and butchery. He and his proxy militias in Syria and Iraq massacred and displaced millions of people from their towns and villages.
They used all types of prohibited and inhumane weapons, including flammable and cluster bombs or chemical weapons on residential areas for intimidation and cleansing.

Calling Soleimani, a “Hero” is an insult to the Iranian people and the people of the region who have been victims of his atrocities. It is also an insult to humanity to call a mass murderer a “hero”.
Soleimani personally was behind the flow of IEDs to Iraq and Afghanistan.

On April 2019, Pentagon announced that Iran is to blame for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011.

The sophisticated IEDs were secretly manufactured in Iran’s military industry factories under the order of Quds force and Soleimani and were distributed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Later Iran’s military factories manufactured a more powerful and deadlier roadside bomb called explosively formed projectiles (EFPs). EFPs were built under a confidential order by the Qods Force in Iran.
The information about the exact location of the factories was revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran on July 25, 2006, and 29 January 2009.

A short review of Soleimani’s activities reflects his true terrorist nature.

Soleimani played a key role in the killing of the members of Iran’s main opposition group,

Altogether from 2009 to 2016, Quds Force proxies in Iraq under the command of Qasem

Soleimani killed 141 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) in terrorist attacks, thousands more were wounded and injured.

Soleimani and Quds force, under his command, was in charge of all the terrorist attacks of the Iranian regime and its proxy groups all across the world. All the Shite terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East, including Kateb Hezbollah, Asaeb al-Haq in Iraq, the Hezbollah in Lebanon, and many other groups in Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and … were under the command of Soleimani.

Soleimani was also responsible for the killing of thousands in Syria.
The Quds force and its proxy groups under the command of Soleimani with brutal tactics destroyed many towns and villages and massacred the civilians.

In recent protests in Iraq, Soleimani led the repressive forces to suppress the protests. The snipers targeting protest leaders from rooftops were the tactic of Soleimani.
Most of the 450 protesters killed during the protests were killed by the snipers. Last November more than 1,500 protesters were killed in Iran, most of them were shot from rooftops by snipers belonging to the Quds forces.
Soleimani was the mastermind for such killings in Iraq and Iran.

Soleimani was a terrorist and leader of a terrorist entity responsible for killings and sufferings of hundreds of thousands of people, and to depict him as a “Hero” is a crime and disgrace.

The Quds Force will not be the same without Qasem Soleimani, and the weakening of the Quds Force will win turn weaken the regime in its entirety.
This will further weaken the regime in the face of ongoing uprisings in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, where Soleimani was one of the most hated figures.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: hassanmahmoud; hezbollah; iran; mek; proxies; qodsforce; quds; qudsforce; soleimani; suleimani; wmds

1 posted on 01/09/2020 7:42:44 AM PST by hassan.mahmoud
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To: hassan.mahmoud
When was the last time the US citizenry elected successive great presidents? How about just "good"?

Iran will wait Trump out and will back in business when the Rats return to power; demographics are on their side: we do NOT have an education system that produces conservative youth. This isn't that hard to figure out.

2 posted on 01/09/2020 7:47:54 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: hassan.mahmoud

President Trump took out the trash permanently, now it’s up to the Iranian good people to clean up the left overs!! The ball is in y’all’s court!! LET FREEDOM RING!!!


3 posted on 01/09/2020 7:50:28 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: hassan.mahmoud

This Brave woman tears down a “Death to America” poster.

The crowd is heard chanting, “Death to the dictator,” in a reference to @Khamenei_ir.

Iranians have no enmity against the U.S. or the American people.

This is a 40-year lie promoted by the mullahs only. #IranProtests

https://twitter.com/i/status/1196396349366898688


4 posted on 01/09/2020 7:51:09 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump defense chief: "US not seeking war with Iran but prepared to 'finish one'!")
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To: hassan.mahmoud

When is the next salami gonna die?
Tired of hearing the last ones name.
I like the kill the lead terrorist doctrine of Trump.
Over.


5 posted on 01/09/2020 7:53:39 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

Well said! Thank you


6 posted on 01/09/2020 7:56:54 AM PST by The Mayor (I am outraged at your outrage toward the outrage!)
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To: right way right
When is the next salami gonna die?

I expressed similar sentiments when Iran named The Fried Guys successor. It would be good to name the heads of these terrorist organizations, then, 48 hours later, strike them off a list of folks to be eliminated. Add names to the bottom and strike them off. We should just keep score until it becomes understood, having your name on the list is a death sentence. They should realize that a pen and paper in the USA shortens the life span of a designated individual.

7 posted on 01/09/2020 8:02:49 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Tenacious 1

...continue...

“Habid, check it out! You made the news in America! You are on the list on CNN. Aluha Akabar! Habib? .... Habib?”


8 posted on 01/09/2020 8:06:35 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: hassan.mahmoud

Great article. Thank you!


9 posted on 01/09/2020 8:20:07 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

In my opinion, I think Hassan Rouhani wants rapprochement with the West. All he needs to do is get Ali Khamenei—a protegé of Ruhollah Khomeini—out of the way. And Khamenei was politically close to Qasem Soleimani.


10 posted on 01/09/2020 8:21:13 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

bfl


11 posted on 01/09/2020 8:23:46 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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Hey, but on the upside, Soleimani has surged to fourth place in the Democrat Presidential Primary, so, they got that going for them.


12 posted on 01/09/2020 8:24:26 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Salvavida

The feminization of leftwing males isn’t going to help their demographics


13 posted on 01/09/2020 8:38:11 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

Thank you for providing context.


14 posted on 01/09/2020 9:45:12 AM PST by bkopto
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