Posted on 02/01/2020 6:45:45 AM PST by Twotone
Iran’s hard-line establishment is trying to ensure through a state propaganda campaign that the foreign operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its assassinated commander are not forgotten.
Major General Qasem Soleimani -- the late commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force -- was targeted and killed by a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on January 3.
Since then, Tehran’s conservative clerics and hard-line media have been paying tribute to the memory of “Martyr Soleimani,” as he’s now referred to in Iran.
One apparent part of the campaign is a recent report published by the hard-line, semiofficial Fars News Agency -- which is affiliated with the IRGC.
It details some of the origins and operations of the once highly secretive Quds Force that Soleimani had commanded from 1998 until his death.
'Fighters Without Borders'
The two-part report focuses on the so-called “fighters without borders,” a term used by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to refer to the elite Quds Force and its work as the IRGC’s foreign-operations branch.
Significantly, the report outlines the secret involvement of the Quds Force in a series of foreign conflicts that Tehran previously has been discreet about.
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
you know, we do have probably too many nuclear weapons. I have an idea of where we could dispose of a few...
It might send the right message to some people too.
It’s very thoughtful of you to suggest we “give” them some nuclear weapons. I understand they’ve been wanting some for quite some time.
A general is on a military operation out of his uniform, and in a country other than his own . . . legitimate kill.
Apparently the hidden Imam is already in Iran implementing chaos. Islamic Iran is a mess.
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Actually, a general on a military operation in another country is a legitimate kill whether he’s in uniform or not.
Yep.
And depending on what country it is, a general in his own country is a legitimate kill whether he’s in uniform or not.
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