His day will come.
The Iranian regime relies on him a lot. His loss would hit them hard.
ISIS position in Salahuddin abandoned after the Iraqi Army's 5th Division rocked up, guns blazing. 
Jane Arraf, who has spent more time reporting from Baghdad than just about any westerner (now for al Jazeera, previously for CNN, Christian Science Monitor, and others), filed a report on Tikrit and Suleimani today. Here’s an extract: (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/iraqi-forces-ramp-offensive-recapture-tikrit-150303091829090.html)
“Citing state media and security sources, Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said an ISIL leader for south Tikrit had been killed and that other ISIL officials had retreated through Huweijah and on into the Hamreen mountains.
“It’s a huge mountain range on the border between Iran and Iraq and traditionally where fighters have hidden,” she said, adding that these reports could not be independently verified.
Our correspondent said: “They [Iraqi forces] are saying that they’re making progress in those ... fronts in which they are fighting around the edges of Tikrit.
“They haven’t yet gone into Tikrit. That’s really because this is going to be a difficult fight, and that is because it is the biggest city they have tried to take back and it’s full of ISIL fighters and is laid with explosives and that is one of the major worries.”
Arraf said Iraqi troops had seized towns and villages along the way to Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin province.
“There is still fighting along the edges and there is a huge Iranian component [involved].
“Sources on the ground tell us General Qassem Soleimani is actually on the ground directing the fight along with the Iraq military and Iranian-backed militias.
“So it is a very complicated fight,” our correspondent said, referring to the senior Iranian army officer involved in the offensive.
Both Iraqi and Iranian media said Soleimani - the commander of the Quds Force covert operations unit of Tehran’s elite Revolutionary Guards - was in Salahuddin to help coordinate operations. “
I am interested to note that she says “there is a huge Iranian component”. That seems to indicate a bigger force of regular Iranian Army units than I had heard reported previously. I figured that they would not hesitate to send in their Army if needed. I wonder what uniform they are wearing?
If they are showing up in force now, I expect significantly more for Mosul. Especially if Tikrit is a hard fight.