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Soleimani's body was identified using a ring he wore on his finger. [165] Soleimani was posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General [10] and praised as a martyr by speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani [166] and Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander of the IRGC. [167] Soleimani was succeeded by Esmail Ghaani as commander of the ...
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
The People's Mojahedin of Iran, an exiled Iranian militant group, welcomed the killing of Soleimani.Its leader Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the disappeared Massoud Rajavi, stated that the killing is an "irreparable blow for the regime of the mullahs" while she accused Soleimani of being "one of the biggest criminals in Iran's history" and "personally implicated in the massacre of thousands of ...
On 3 January 2020, General Qasem Soleimani was killed by a United States drone attack in Iraq. Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC. Soleimani held a position of significant influence in Iran, widely considered the second most powerful figure in the country after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As leader of the Quds ...
Milad Sheykh Soleimani (born 1992), Iranian-Bangladeshi footballer; Mohammad Soleimani (born 1954), Iranian politician; Mohammad Soleimani (volleyball) (born 1987), Iranian volleyball player; Mohammad Reza Soleimani (born 1995), Iranian footballer; Parvin Soleimani (1922–2009), Iranian actress; Qasem Soleimani (1957–2020), Iranian general
Zeinab Soleimani is part of the Islamic Republic of Iran's media narrative about her father. Coincidentally, her name also aligns with this content; Zeinab, the sister of Hussein ibn Ali, is known as the "messenger of Ashura" in Shia literature. Even before Qasem Soleimani's death, Zeinab was the only child of his who appeared in public.
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...
The funeral ceremony of Soleimani in Tehran was described as "the largest in Iran since the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini", founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in 1989. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 7 January 2020, a stampede took place at the burial procession in Kerman, killing at least 56 mourners and injuring over 200. [ 4 ]