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Meet The Ghostly Iranian Spymaster Running Every Mid-East Proxy War: "He Is Everywhere But Nowhere"
Everyone likes a good ghost story every now and again and as it turns out, at the other end of the rabbit hole that is Syria’s bloody civil war, you come face to face with a shadowy Iranian general the mere mention of whom is enough to send chills down the spines of intelligence operatives the world over.
Earlier in September, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt had an awkward exchange with Donald Trump on air:
Hewitt: Are you familiar with Gen. Soleimani?
Trump: Yes, but go ahead, give me a little, go ahead, tell me.
Hewitt: He runs the Quds Forces.
Trump: Yes, okay, right.
Hewitt: Do you expect his behavior..
Trump: The Kurds.. have been horribly mistreated by us.
Hewitt: No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces.
Trump: Yes, yes.
Hewitt: The bad guys.
Trump: Right.
Here’s how The New Yorker describes Hewitt’s “bad guys”: “The force is the sharp instrument of Iranian foreign policy, roughly analogous to a combined C.I.A. and Special Forces.”
Their commander is Gen. Qassem Soleimani and if you believe the legend, he is a spy among spies - a general among generals - a kind of ghost story that intelligence agents might tell their kids around a campfire.
Weeks ago, we began to suggest that it was Soleimani who orchestrated the Russian-Iranian incursion in Syria. That now looks to have been the case as we explained in "Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions." But before we delve further into the General's role in Syria, we'll first give you a taste of the backround story behind a man who many Iranians look upon with near religious reverence.
There are competing accounts regarding Soleimaini’s birthplace. Consider the following from the American Enterprise Institute:
“According to the US Department of State, Suleimani was born in the city of Qom on March 11, 1957. Persian-language sources contest this claim, identifying the village of Rabord in Kerman Province in south-eastern Iran as Suleimani’s place of birth[9]–which has significant implications for understanding Suleimani. Qom’s population is centered around religion, including theologians and seminary students from all over the world, along with pilgrims and those who make their living from the pilgrimage industry. In contrast, the mountain village of Rabord in remote Kerman–closer to the Afghan border–has a tribal structure, which would have prepared Suleimani for operating in tribal societies such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Keep that last bolded passage in mind.
When Soleimani was a child, he and a relative left home to earn money for their fathers who they feared would be arrested in connection with money their families owed to the Shah. Soleimani worked menial jobs until 1979 when, after the Shah was overthrown by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, he joined the newly-created Revolutionary Guard. When Saddam invaded Iran, Soleimani was sent to the frontlines as a water boy (literally) and ended up staying there until the end of the war. Here are a few excerpts from The New Yorker’s account:
Suleimani earned a reputation for bravery and élan, especially as a result of reconnaissance missions he undertook behind Iraqi lines. He returned from several missions bearing a goat, which his soldiers slaughtered and grilled. “Even the Iraqis, our enemy, admired him for this,” a former Revolutionary Guard officer who defected to the United States told me. On Iraqi radio, Suleimani became known as “the goat thief.” In recognition of his effectiveness, Alfoneh said, he was put in charge of a brigade from Kerman, with men from the gyms where he lifted weights.
The Iranian Army was badly overmatched, and its commanders resorted to crude and costly tactics. In “human wave” assaults, they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines, often to clear minefields, and soldiers died at a precipitous rate. Suleimani seemed distressed by the loss of life. Before sending his men into battle, he would embrace each one and bid him goodbye; in speeches, he praised martyred soldiers and begged their forgiveness for not being martyred himself. When Suleimani’s superiors announced plans to attack the Faw Peninsula, he dismissed them as wasteful and foolhardy. The former Revolutionary Guard officer recalled seeing Suleimani in 1985, after a battle in which his brigade had suffered many dead and wounded. He was sitting alone in a corner of a tent. “He was very silent, thinking about the people he’d lost,” the officer said.
Iran, bitter at the West's role in helping Saddam during the war (yes, that's right, the US has been using the same flawed Mid-East foreign policy for decades wherein the only thing that matters is expediency, leading directly a disastrous brand of geopolitical myopia) but having come away with a lesson in the futility of open warfare, set out (again in The New Yorker's words) to "build the capacity to wage asymmetrical warfare—attacking stronger powers indirectly, outside of Iran." The Quds Force was born.
You can read more details of Soleimani's exploits in the articles cited and linked above including how he battled the Taliban on the Afghan border, but for brevity's sake, suffice to say he became the Quds commander in 1998. From then on, he capitalized on various opportunities to build the alliances that Tehran needed in order to ensure that the regional balance of power didn't tip too far in the direction of Riyadh and the Sunnis. In one famous case, he allegedly tried to orchestrate the assassination of the Saudi ambassador in a Washington DC restaurant. From Wikileaks:
Designated today pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 for acting for or on behalf of the IRGC-QF were: Manssor Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen holding both Iranian and U.S. passports who acted on behalf of the IRGC-QF to pursue the failed plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador; IRGC-QF commander Qasem Soleimani.
He also coordinated heavily with the US in the wake of 9/11 before Bush's "axis of evil" comment soured the relationship at which point the General purportedly began sponsoring attacks on US troops. He formed stronger relations with Hezbollah and developed powerful Shiite militias in Iraq on the way to becoming what one former Iraqi official described as "the most powerful man in the country, without question.” He is even feared by the Peshmerga, who aren't exactly known for cowardice. Sound far fetched? Consider the following short clip:
Don't forget that Russia and Syria just recently sealed an intelligence sharing deal which is almost invariably the precursor to Russian bombing raids in support of Iraq's Shiite militias as they battle ISIS.
And as for who's arming the Shiite Houthis in Yemen against the Saudis: you guessed it, Soleimani.
As for Syria, he has quite simply been running the show for years. As one American official told The New Yorker two years ago, "he’s running the war [in Syria] himself." Here's an excerpt from a 2009 secret diplomatic cable (again, via Wikileaks):
The public showcasing of these three visits contrasted with the secrecy with which Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander/al-Quds Force Ghassem Soleimani conducted his. Reportedly accompanying Jalili, Soleimani returned to Damascus after a long absence, perhaps a reflection of lingering tensions between Iran and Syria that erupted after the February 2008 assassination of Hizballah military strategist Imad Mugniyah in the Syrian capital. Al Hayat Bureau Chief Ibrahim Hamidi (strictly protect) spoke very reluctantly about Soleimani's presence in Damascus, saying only that "he was here," and "when he visits, it's usually significant."
The problem, in Soleimani's own words, is that "the Syrian Army is useless!" And so in light of that rather blunt assessment, the General appears to have gotten fed up with SAA incompetence leading directly to the following:
Back in June, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimaini, visited a town north of Latakia on the frontlines of Syria’s protracted civil war. Following that visit, he promised that Tehran and Damascus were set to unveil a new strategy that would “surprise the world.”
Just a little over a month later, Soleimani - in violation of a UN travel ban - visited Russia and held meetings with The Kremlin. The Pentagon now says those meetings were “very important” in accelerating the timetable for Russia’s involvement in Syria. The General allegedly made another visit to Moscow in September.
Here is Reuters with more color on what exactly took place when Soleimani flew to Moscow:
At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory - with Russia's help.
Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning for a Russian military intervention that has reshaped the Syrian war and forged a new Iranian-Russian alliance in support of Assad.
As Russian warplanes bomb rebels from above, the arrival of Iranian special forces for ground operations underscores several months of planning between Assad's two most important allies, driven by panic at rapid insurgent gains.
Senior regional sources say Soleimani has already been overseeing ground operations against insurgents in Syria and is now at the heart of planning for the new Russian- and Iranian-backed offensive.
That expands his regional role as the battlefield commander who has also steered the fight in neighboring Iraq by Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia against Islamic State.
His Moscow meeting outlined the deteriorating situation in Syria, where rebel advances toward the coast were posing a danger to the heartland of Assad's Alawite sect, where Russia maintains its only Mediterranean naval base in Tartous.
"Soleimani put the map of Syria on the table. The Russians were very alarmed, and felt matters were in steep decline and that there were real dangers to the regime. The Iranians assured them there is still the possibility to reclaim the initiative," a senior regional official said. "At that time, Soleimani played a role in assuring them that we haven't lost all the cards."
Three senior officials in the region say Soleimani's July trip was preceded by high-level Russian-Iranian contacts that produced political agreement on the need to pump in new support for Assad as his losses accelerated.
The decision for a joint Iranian-Russian military effort in Syria was taken at a meeting between Russia's foreign minister and Khamenei a few months ago, said a senior official of a country in the region, involved in security matters.
"Soleimani, assigned by Khamenei to run the Iranian side of the operation, traveled to Moscow to discuss details. And he also traveled to Syria several times since then," the official said.
The Russian government says its Syria deployment came as the result of a formal request from Assad, who himself laid out the problems facing the Syrian military in stark terms in July, saying it faced a manpower problem.
Khamenei also sent a senior envoy to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin, another senior regional official said. "Putin told him 'Okay we will intervene. Send Qassem Soleimani'.
And the rest, as they say, is history in Syria.
That, in brief, is the story of Iran's spymaster general who not only controls Iraqi politics and serves as the supreme commander for the country's various Shiite militias, but who is also the puppet master for the Houthis and Hezbollah. Now, he's orchestrated Russian air support for Iran's ally in Damascus.
Everything laid out above would obviously be intriguing enough on its own but consider one last excerpt, this one from BBC:
Switch on the television in Iran these days and it won't be long before you see General Qasem Soleimani.
The once reclusive head of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force has emerged from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations abroad, to achieve almost celebrity status in Iran.
The man who, until a couple of years ago most Iranians would not have recognised on the street, is now the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.
One music video widely shared in Iran was made by Shia militia fighters in Iraq. It shows soldiers spray-painting the general's portrait on a wall and parading in front of it while stirring music plays in the background.
Inside Iran a campaign has started among conservative bloggers for Gen Soleimani to go into politics. They have dubbed him Iran's most honest and least corrupt politician and are calling for him to put his uniform aside and stand for president in 2017.
Is Soleimani set to make a play for the Iranian presidency? And if so, what comes next? That is, what use is the Ayatollah in the face of the most revered general in the country who all at once embodies everything the Supreme Leader stands for while also possessing a steely resolve and measured (or maybe "calculated" is the better word) approach to diplomacy? Finally, what happens if the man who, in the West anyway, is generally considered to be the number one agent for state sponsored terror becomes president shortly after the nuclear deal?
Perhaps this is simply an example of a decorated war verteran around which a legend has grown that bears no resemblance to reality.
Or perhaps - just perhaps - there's something bigger going on and between all of the Moscow versus Washington, East Vs. West, Cold War 2.0 headlines everyone simply missed it. And if there is a bigger picture here, will we even get to see it play out, or will Soleimani simply recede back into the shadows to run the show from behind the curtain?
And on that note, we close with one quote, and one clip...
A senior US official in 2011: "He is indeed like Keyser Soze. He is everywhere, but nowhere."
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Sean Connery?!?! I knew MI6 was behind all this shit.
"Ryan, remember, some things in there don't react well to bullets."
I thnk I just saw him on TV.
It was in an ad for Dos Equis beer...
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Please. That's Bond. James Bond.
James Bond is Western myth compilation for slowly lose Cold War.
If is commies don't succeed, is try try again.
My guess: Gen. Soleimani will go missing sometime soon.
Very missing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World
I haven't heard the comparisons being made to Hitler yet... worse? better?
The Iranians sent kids out at the end to walk the minefields, they gave them keys to wear around their necks which would unlock the doors of paradise.
Heartbreaking.
This told to me by an Iranian friend.
Fuck War
Fuck the Globalist corrupted leadership that controls all the nations of the world.
Millionaire Mullahs - General Politics and Current Issues - ShiaChat.com
You'll never guess where the devoutly religious Mullahs that control Iran send their hard-stolen money away to to be safe...
Sounds like an ordinary man-of-the-people general to me. Someone who commands respect. You know, the kind the pentagram had before they all became ass-kissing quota-hire faggots.
I heard somewhere Carl Ichan joined the army too.
Meahwhile POTUS golfs...
So Suleimani is really Jonathan GoldSmith? ... figures
He's a greasy-looking pagan. That's for sure. I'd hate to meet him in a detention center.
If is commies don't succeed, is try try again.
If we just kill another 10 million people......this crap outta work.
Confiscate the guns first.....otherwise they'll shoot back at you.
"Sounds like an ordinary man-of-the-people general to me"
Not.
Suleimani is a hard-line supporter of Iran’s authoritarian system.
In July, 1999, at the height of student protests, he signed, with other Revolutionary Guard commanders, a letter warning the reformist President Mohammad Khatami that if he didn’t put down the revolt the military would—perhaps deposing Khatami in the process. “Our patience has run out,” the generals wrote.
The police crushed the student demonstrators, as they did again, a decade later.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
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http://www.colorrevolutionsandgeopolitics.blogspot.com/
Yep. Sad to say that US generals look like they shouldn't be asking or telling these days.
wow, cool link, thx zerohead!
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This article in parts is somehow a bit much two-dimensional, cartoonish, propagandous.
American Enterprise Institute a well known neocon boiler room operation, their depiction to discount appropriately.
New Yorker account if told in real Soleimani sent to frontlines as water boy spins in fantasy realm.
More realistic depiction posted Cassad past week (yandex English translated link):
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.ru/colonelcassad.livejournal.com/24...
you no a writa gud engleesh.
If you have atrophy of something, it is not worth your sickness to project onto others in the form of boorish.
Before you make fun of someones broken English, remember that it means they are fluent in at least one other.
How many languages do you speak?
I don't always send suicide bombers, but when I do I prefer Dos Iraqis.
Funny. Shit. Thanks for that.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-pensioner-faces-350-lashes-in-sau...
Haha!
made my mornin, 813kml.
too funny, oh sure, born on 3-11 worked with bush before 911, and when bush said iran was axis of evil, he then goes full on the axis of evil role, repeatedly got behind iraq lines during the iran iraq war, came back with a goat each time, the story of him getting respect from iraqis because he kept getting behind their lines and coming back with a goat, they called him goat boy, the same iraq lines that were a total mined death trap for anyone else, he works for the elites.
theater all.
The whole story sounds eerily like the alleged dreaded Iraqi Special Republican Guard, who fled their Tanks and Armored Vehicles and abandoned the fight before the US ground forces ever made it to Baghdad.
Just another Hobgoblin ginned up to scar the gullible west into supporting another War!
Stop supplying weapons to the insurgents in Syria and like magic the Russians go home, and the Syrian refugees stop the exodus.
Conversely, helicopter in more weapons, if your goal is to draw the Russians into a war and flood the west with refugees (aka, cheap labor).
maybe go missing...but not to worry, he'll show up in a future false-flag operation as a different actor
You think he will go "missing"? Have you not considered that a man like that could just possibly have a really really bad-ass personal security team.
"Or perhaps - just perhaps - there's something bigger going on and between all of the Moscow versus Washington, East Vs. West, Cold War 2.0 headlines everyone simply missed it."
Oh there is something bigger that is being completely missed all right...
it is a Great Relief to have an Individual Person to direct my Minute of Hate and Fear against.
one day, perhaps topus will interrupt teevee to announce that this person has been apprehended in a hospital bed and dumped into the sea.
With all the work being done to build this guy up you almost expect that he's going to be bombing the U.S. with nuclear weapons shortly...
Iranian running all Mid-east proxy wars ? Hey- that's our job !
Trying to find the whole truth in media is like squeezing juice out of a turnip.
~"If is commies don't succeed, is try try again."~
Hence Obama?
Bond is an Mi6 stooge for the Red Shield. Just like T.E. Lawrence.
Harry Palmeris closer to the truth. Shitty job where your own kind like the Sgt Major and pubic school boys like (pig skull f**ker and red shield stooge) Davie Cameron are always just about to sell you out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5ec35Toc4
Bullshit, that's General Zod from the old superman 2 movie
Interesting.
October 13th will Mark the Real 2,570 Day Shemitah Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAgcwOcmcU4
Should I sell my APPL?
ANY DAY NOW
Sorry couldn't manage beyond "This is Dahboo 7..."
I don't always take out the recycling but when I do... I feel like a raging alcoholic.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Stay radioactive my friends.
Stay thirsty my friends...
Can scarcely believe the level of presumption on the part of American intelligentsia, that would dare conceive the possibility of controlling that cluster fuck of a world.
Control? No. Endlessly destabilize by pitting one group against another? Yes.
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Funny thing that, considering thats EXACTLY what your boy Pooty is telling everyone thats what he can do -- and in 3-4 months no less!
He is ... the most interesting man in the world.
the old colin powell
He clearly has an agent.
Look at his face my American friends. Look very, very hard. Commit that steely glare to your memory. This man is coming for you and your children.
Beware of Persians appearing to play both sides.
Perhaps the U.S. could rely on Greek help?
Long as they wear Trojans. Badumpshhh
He's a shape-shifting Jooooo, so says any number of ZHemmrioders. Mystery solved.
There's no doubt that many ZHer's think that the spymaster must be part of a global Zionist plot orchestrated by Israel?
Where's The Indelicate ... with his tired old links about Israel that he posts to every thread?
He must be out servicing his Hezbollah masters?
They'll all be out in droves soon enough.
No, the persian spymaster is against the zionist plot that created Israel.
How do you know that the persian spymaster isn't also a double agent for Israel who was put in place by the Zionists who created the Zionist plot to create Israel??
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Wait. This can't be true. Obamas name was nowhere to be found.
Absolutely, that's why the gods created religion - to keep you distracted.
The gods want certain energy pipeline routes cleaned up?
Or perhaps he's in it for himself. If he can benefit his country/people/religion/cause then so be it. Who can know the priorities of such a man other than to say he does seem to oppose those who oppose his country.
Oh noes! It's Zelig!
Is this the guy in that beer commercial, you know, "the most interesting man in the world"?
You beat me to it. Either that or it is an Orson Welles imposter. We will sell no wine before it's time but we sure as hell will drink a shitload of it before we make a TV commercial.
He is a Leader and men will follow him into battle.
That's why Vlad asked for him personally.
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Apparently so was Revolutionary Guard General Hossein Hamedani. But he's dead now after apparently being in the worng place when one of his "buddies" named Vlad hit him with one of his cruise missiles...
On Friday, Iran announced Hamedani had been killed this week in Syria in an ISIS attack. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the general and some of his bodyguards were killed outside a military airport near Aleppo.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/an-iranian-gene...
He could do a commercial on US TeeVee: "There is a time and place for funding and arming proxy terrorist armies. The time is never. You can figure out the place on your own."
https://youtu.be/qpUMYQe6uHY
"Inside Iran a campaign has started among conservative bloggers for Gen Soleimani to go into politics."
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Using the term "conservative" to describe Perisan politics, especially for US readers, makes the author's position utterly laughable.
So you're saying he's McStains brother from another mother ?
from the look of the downvotes, apparently it doesn't.
and why would it? conservative seems a perfect word for this man's likely base of support.
Russia has Putin. Iran has Soleimani. We have Obama and Trump.
Fucked.
"Iran has Soleimani."
He's a commander of the Quds Force which is like the CIA. He's not an elected official.
How do you know that the CIA doesn't have someone(s) similiar?
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iran-qassem-suleimani-2015...
if they did the u.s. would have done better in syria, iraq, afghanistan, libya . . . . ?
9-11 would have been far more convincing?
Maybe the CIA has been compromised and the goal was not to do well in syria, iraq, afghanistan, libya . . . .?
Our CIA directors look like... Bush.
"Their commander is Gen. Qassem Soleimani and if you believe the legend, he is a spy among spies - a general among generals - a kind of ghost story that intelligence agents might tell their kids around a campfire."
This is good writing.
Good fiction. This is good fictional writing. There I fixed it...
For fucks sake, they make this guy sound like he was born with a beard, hung like John Holmes, smarter than a supercomputer and more popular than the Beetles (or Katy Perry)
C'mon, the other "Iranian mastermind general" supposedly up there with this guy got his ass shot off last week. Literally...
if you can't spell beatles why should you be read?
What is a "Katy Perry"?
I heard she kissed a girl, and mainstream media liked it.
White House still ignores murder of American reporter Serena Shim who filmed western aid to ISIS
She was killed almost one year ago. Oct 19
Killed?
Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, had been working in Turkey for Press TV - the Iranian state-owned television network.
Shim died after the car in which she was travelling had a head on collision with another vehicle.
Sounds like how they offed Patton.
World still forgets to mention Rachel Corrie,native of Olympia,Wa.,
squished to death beneath an IDF armored bulldozer,engaged in knocking
down houses in the Gaza,punishing residents of the Arab neighborhoods for
the activities of mobile rocket launching jihadists.Young and idealistic,
using her body as a shield.Vale Rachel....
She didn't do squat for the Palis, but she sure did improve the gene pool.
Note to silly little girls - Don't play in front of bulldozers. Especially when they are bulldozing th ehouses of terrorists.
Rachel was the very definition of a "useful idiot".
and you would be what? oh yes, a useless idiot.
you give zionists a bad name and they already have one.
you sound like george bush bragging about executing a crying woman.
rachel corrie had more guts than you and everyone you know.
"you sound like george bush bragging about executing a crying woman"
WTF, George Bush never executed a crying woman.
However, your Marxist Muslim dictator Obama has authorized drones against people and the dropping bombs on hospitals. He never shed a tear.
How can you draw distinctions between Bush and Obama?
Once upon a time.........
Sounds like a 21st Century Hannibal.
But you can't say that the "ass wipe of all ass wipe(s)" that are the Washington, Israel, London covenant aren't doing the best job of making him look good!
All we see and Know is that this man is fighting terrorist.
Even in Yemen, he supports houthis to fight Al Qaeda.
So, why some call him sponsor of terrorist?
Very confusing.
Our guys, moderates, democrats, reformists, "free" something or other...
Their guys, terrorists.
Next question.
If it wasn't for ZH I would have never known about this man when I did, and his eventual imprint on history will likely remain shrouded in the chronicling of the demise of the greatest empire the world has ever known I surmise. I've been critical of ZH sometimes in the past but I think we all owe a debt of gratitiude to Tyler and the Tylers. Cheers and give yourselves a big pat on the back!
That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning...
Sounds like Kaiser Sose
fock president. make this guy the new caliph.
Seems like a nice enough chap. He's effective, that's a fact.
Mad respect for Qassem Soleimani. He is a bad ass. I wish he were the leader of this country.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
"Mad respect for Qassem Soleimani. He is a bad ass. I wish he were the leader of this country."
Suleimani is a hard-line supporter of Iran’s authoritarian system. In July, 1999, at the height of student protests, he signed, with other Revolutionary Guard commanders, a letter warning the reformist President Mohammad Khatami that if he didn’t put down the revolt the military would—perhaps deposing Khatami in the process. “Our patience has run out,” the generals wrote. The police crushed the demonstrators, as they did again, a decade later.
Only a mad brainwashed fool would want that POS as a leader.
I'm sorry for you: was it hard for you to be so stupid?
It's easy for you to be so stupid. You are a fool.
Now go put on a clean burqa and wash your muzzie master's dirty feet.
Maybe I'm missing the sarc but I'm with ZD1 on this. Just because the guy is fighting our bad guys doesn't make him a good guy. I don't know what he really is. I do know that I'd be much happier without anyone having that kind of power over me and that includes our guys.
Stalin vs Hitler.
"If we lose Syria we can't keep Tehran"
they say he is not really religious but he is driven by nationalism and the love of the fight.
Sounds like George Patton.
Suleimani will win against the traitors the West employs.
They don't even believe in their own countries.
You'll take the New Yorker's word for anything?
And then say you're sorry about Dresden?
Bullshit, that's General Zod from the old superman 2 movie
Oh, I didn't even think of that one. Well played.
Kneel before Zod.
Keyser Soze my lilly white you-know-what.
He will make a mistake and end up just like his second-in-command.
His name was Valerie Jarrett
What you don't see in the pictures is that he's holding a Dos Equis.
General among generals? LMAO. What is that comment based on anyways? I've said it before, that area of the world has needed a real war for a long time now. THose soldiers would roll over in a few days. I think you guys underestimate the US military. Remember, most of its capability has not been used. That being said, I applaud Putin for cleaning up Obama's mess. Not sure this Iranian knows who they're dealing with in Russia.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Him and Keyser Soze.
And the beast on the horizon is two Mossad agents in a cow suit talking on the radio to Zohan Dvir swinging from a helicopter.
They're everywhere and all powerful.
..it sucks being check-mated. The Pentagram desperately dropping ammo in the middle of Syria? Svelte.
How many of us Zhers flashed on that ammo being parachuted and thought "..oh fuck, bales of USD Benjamins are next!"
"I don't often go to war, but when I do, I kick ass."
Russia and Iran are going to Own the Middle east.
These guys are fighting for their countries vesus the Anglo-Zionist mercenaries.
Funny how much he looks like this guy. Well, at least he did...
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Elite Iran Revolutionary Guard General Hossein Hamedani KILLED by Syrian Freedom Fighters
Syrian Freedom Fighters scored a MAJOR VICTORY today with the killing of General Hossein Hamedani. Looks like these Iranian and Assadists thought they were safe from the Syrian Rebels with all the Russian bombings. But it turns Russian cruise missiles like to blow up Iranian targets more than Syrian rebels.
TEHRAN:
Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior commander in Iran's
Revolutionary Guards in Syria, the elite branch of the Iranian military
said Friday.
General Hossein Hamedani was killed on Thursday by
IS "during an advisory mission" in the northern region of Aleppo, a
Guards statement said.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=030_1444389253
Ya, Iran calls him a martyr.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940720001071
He died fighting ISIL, shouldn't he be a hero? Or do you cheer for the headcutters?
"Or do you cheer for the headcutters?"
They're all head-cutters to one degree or another.
Two groups, each with their own intolerant view of reality. One, an insurgency sponsored by outside agents, the other a totalitarian state.
Not much to chose between really. Not for me anyway. I'd lose my head in either.
Dust 'em all, I'd say - but we know that's not gonna happen, so yeah. Go Iran.
Commenter alphahammer delusions broadcasts or stuck in permanent trololo mode.
Tells Hamedani was exploded on Russian cruise missile one sentence, next sentence he the jihadists killed.
What are you saying? Well, at least re-read before sending. It's on psychiatry already looks like becoming sentences do not logically docked and contradict each other.
Looks like you're fucked in the head.
In the clinic of neurosis. Urgently.
Ha ha ha .... dead Iranian general with his ass blown off. That's worth a smile on a Monday. I hope he's the first of many.
It will be fun to see what can be done with Hezbollah in the open desert as well. I sense a drone strike coming on :)
You have a rich inner schizophrenic world.
You have shit for brains.
"Syrian Freedom Fighters"
Who are these Syrian Freedom Fighters you speak of??
The reports I see tell me they are plain old "terrorist mercenaries", paid for, trained and armed by Washington and its allies.
Look at this mans face. A pure soldier. Hard to find anything like that on the other side these days.
He sounds like a good Presidential candidate for the Republican party,he could pull in swing voters who would like to see him rip Chris Christies larnyx out through his rectum..
His leadership ability has few equal. He appears to command respect because of his management of the region, with respect to Lebonan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq.
I don't read about, nor see pictures of his organization, hacking people up and crucifing them.
From my prospective Iran is the most responsible power in the region and perhaps the world.
He's ruthless.
Why don't you go visit him in Iran and let him hack your Kafir self down to size?
He's got lightly chastised people for that, I bet.
Your the nigger. Or even worse....a Jooh?????
I would much rather be a nigger than a kike!
I am surprised the Mossad hasn't killed him already. Probably one of the most hated men in Israeli and Saudi intelligence circles.
As a Muslim I do not drink beer.
But if I was a filthy infidel,
I would drink Dos Equis
Dos Equis?
Hit in the balls?
Maybe they market a coffee brand in the ME.
Stay twitchy, my friends.
Ghostly SPY? ZH has the photos of him, and you called it GHOSTLY??
The one that GHOSTLY is??
ASSMEEHREEKAA "Moderates Syrian militia"!!
Now THAT's? I never seen those things...
Gen. Soleimani, Putin
zh man porn
And here's a particularly ardent stance very often demonstrate just latent representatives of rainbow wave.
So go jumping and run over to the gay parade.
Most of what you hear in the media is crap... are they making a new boogie man? Hitler? If it's true... hope he wins. USA go home