Posted on 01/09/2020 6:22:17 PM PST by bitt
Thank you, Sir.
I see. We in the US can’t be smart and catch that guy. Another high-ranking Iranian had to sell him out first. Whatever.
I think the plane was full of his people and those foreigners involved with advising the nuclear program. 85 Canadians. very curies about who they were and why they were there. think Uranium one and the fact that Russian company moved the uranium through Canada before shipping it over sea’s
Future “dictator in waiting” was exactly how he was seen by many in Iran especially by the mullahs themselves. Successful, charismatic generals with no prior political experience often achieve power and are critical in transforming their countries. Ataturk, De Galle, Pinochet to name a recent few can be cited. Some had hoped that Soleimani was at his core an Iranian patriot and not a devout, subservient tool of the mullahs. If he had been elected President, the mullahs knew that he had the stature and the support of the people. He could have changed Iran’s constitution and taken secular power away from the medieval mullahs. Soleimani was the best hope of those who wanted to drive the medieval mullahs back to their mosques and allow Iran and its people to enter the modern world. Then again perhaps he was nothing more than a power hungry, grandiose thug and would have led Iran and its people to total ruin. We’ll never know . But it is very conceivable he was betrayed by the hard line mullahs and their paranoid ardent supporters. After 40 years there are many people who live well working closely with the ruling mullahs and want no real change in Iran.
Soleimani did not travel covertly. GP has really gone down hill.
The story that Soleimani was set up by Khamenei was floated by Iranians on Twitter & other sites shortly after he was killed.
whatever makes your leg tingle, sparky.
And the Russians were so happy with Irans thunderous return missile volley, they accidentally shot down a plane ? Or was it one of Soleimani’s sympathizers ?
Accidentally shooting down an airliner that was taking off from Tehran, ascending at a very fast rate, and heading away from Tehran ( not toward it) seems unbelievably inept even for the Pasdaran,
Just sayin..,
Interesting. When they release the names of the 60+ Canadians it might provide why so many were in Iran, which is not a popular tourist site for them.
Reuters has come out saying that it was a combination of Syrian and Iraqi informants.
Has Trump ever retweeted Gateway Pundit? Even once?
Dual citizens
Dictator in waiting or future transformitive leader? In either instance, most #2 guys desire to become #1. I think Iranian leaders gave him up to protect their power. Recall that Trump said that Soleimani was taken out “to stop a war, not start a war”. If Soleimani wanted and had gotten a war with the US, the aftermath likely would have ended us deposing the current Iranian government, as Trump wouldn’t have gone at it tit for tat.
Who cares? A win is a win!
My bet, Russia leaked the location of this ‘general’ to get rid of him for some reason. The relationship between Iran-Russia seems weak. With the war in Syria over, Putin doesn’t need Iran a rival oil producer.
According to confidential sources inside Iran, on the night of January 6th, 56 high-ranking IRGC officers, including the late Qods Force commander General Soleimani’s right-hand man in Iraq, were arrested. A further 34 IRGC officers were detained on the 8th. All 90 of these men were said to be personally loyal to Soleimani.
Here's a toast to what should be 90 executions to follow.
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