Amongst #Iranian officials and the Iranian media the consistent slogans since the death of #Soleimani were hard revenge - that's the official hashtag. And there's been no real lessening of actual activity. And now as we're seeing here in 2024 with this regional war which is effectively being led by the #AxisOfResistance on whether #US forces or #Israel and its interests it's stronger than ever.
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Following is a thread of quotes from #TheGlobalJigsaw latest episode on the #IRGC, #Quds force, #Basij militias - and th ideological blueprint for #Iran so called Axis of Resistance. Whole episode here:
the #Quds force was not a household name until a few years ago - they emerged into the spotlight under the command of Qasem #Soleimani - he was a construction worker at the time in Kerman, with little formal schooling, but thanks to the revolution he became an #IRGC paramilitary. He was involved both in the suppression of the #Kurdish revolts in ethnic Kurdish regions of #Iran in 1979, but also gained status as a kind of a war hero in the Iran-Iraq war
He was already a notorious figure around the time of the Arab Spring and the outbreak of the #Syrian civil war.
In #Syria first it was #Soleimani 's role in ensuring that the #IRGC propped up the govt of Bashar al #Assad after the outbreak of civil war - he reportedly personally convinced the supreme leader, who he had a direct line to, to intervene in Syria on Assad's behalf. And then again, reportedly goes to #Moscow to convince #Putin to intervene in Syria on Assad’s behalf.
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In 1999 #Iran had a hostile neighbour to its east in the Islamic Emirate of the #Taliban in #Afghanistan. And it was there that #Soleimani , after 911, used the #IRGC ’s knowledge of Taliban bases to help the #US when it came to the invasion in 2001. Because although the IRGC was rhetorically opposed to the US, it was the Taliban that posed the more present danger. Although the IRGC went on to cooperate with various factions of the Taliban against the Republic in Afghanistan after 2001.
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#soleimani was seen as defending #Iran on its frontlines in #Iraq against an extremist #Sunni group - #ISIS#IS#daesh which was dedicated to the murder of #Shia Muslims, wherever they could find them. there have already been several years of speculation whether in the #Iranian press that Soleimani would actually run for President
When he was assassinated we saw a genuine huge wave of mourning in Iran, his funeral was apparently the biggest mass gathering recorded in Iranian history
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#Soleimani ’s assassination seems to have given a new impetus to the so-called #AxisOfResistance - the network of groups in the region doing #ran ’s bidding. This network is far from homogenous - each group has its own agenda.
These range from pure proxies like some #Iraqi militias and #Afghan and #Pakistani#Shia mercenary groups, which are the absolute creations of the #IRGC with little independent decision making power and ideologically absolutely line of the Islamic republic.
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Prior to the #Trump presidency, we actually had the beginnings of a #nuclear deal with #Iran. Then he came along and destroyed what we had. And then under Trump we killed Iranian General Qasem #Soleimani in Iraq.
Why Islamic State attacked Iran on the anniversary of Soleimani’s death
Last week’s bombing near the grave of the Quds Force general that killed 84 is the latest episode in ISIS’s war on Shiite Muslims.
Bei einer Gedenkfeier zum Jahrestag der Tötung des iranischen Generals Soleimani ist es zu zwei Explosionen gekommen. Laut staatlichen Medien kamen mindestens 70 Menschen ums Leben, mehr als 170 wurden verletzt.
Bei einer Gedenkfeier zum Jahrestag der Tötung des iranischen Generals Soleimani ist es zu einer Explosion gekommen. Laut staatlichen Medien kamen mindestens 20 Menschen ums Leben, 40 weitere wurden verletzt.
Ok let's talk about what "#Iranian sleeper cells" in the US look like.
This July 2022 video shows 100s of children singing an ode to Qassem #Soleimani & Iran's Supreme Leader #Khamenei with lyrics "I will be your soldier, I will be your martyr."
Must be why US taxpayers pay $2 million per month for the criminal defendant's security.
Adds proof to confirms my theory that criminal defendant Donald was trading top secrets to Iran to get off the hit list for ordering Qassim Soleimani's assassination. My guess is fat Mike Pompeo is also on the list.
5 times indicted criminal defendant arrested 4 times for 91 felony crimes Donald Trump ordered the #killing of #Qasem#Soleimani, with Mike #Pompeo and then publicly admitted it. Iran has an arrest warrant out for #criminal#defendant Donald.
Hey #Iran, get in line. We just arrested this fucker 4 times!
Yes, the criminal defendant Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. This decision was made seven months prior to the hit. The final signoff on any specific operation to kill Soleimani was given by Trump. The drone strike that killed #Soleimani took place in Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
The drone strike that killed Iran's top commander, General #Qasem#Soleimani, near Baghdad's airport in Iraq. Then Trump went on national TV said he ordered the hit.
donald t**** and mike Pompeo carried out the attack on the territory of a state that plainly did not give us permission, said Mary Ellen O'Connell, a law professor and an expert on international disputes at the University of Notre Dame. "The attack was unlawful, the assassination was not justifiable."
2/ #Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top commander Qasem Soleimani
UPDATED MON, JUN 29 2020 11:56 AM EDT
#Qasem#Soleimani led #Iran's Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The 62-year-old Soleimani was killed in a drone strike directed by Trump and Pompeo in early January 2020.
NEWS -- Trump's attorneys turned over material in mid-March in response to a federal subpoena related to the document he described on tape but were unable to find the document itself.
Pompeo made a deal that allowed Iran to conduct the Jan 8, 2020, missile strike that struck al Assad air base that seriously injured more than 150 US military service members.
Trump gave the document in question to the Saudis as part of his golf tournament contract with them? There’s a reason why the Saudis are pumping billions into businesses with Trump & Kushner and it’s not out of the goodness of their heart. #DoJ
Here is today's new #StateDept sanctions against #Iranians for targeting former US Govt officials. #45 is terrified. I can imagine him trying to make a deal with Iran to get off the #Fatwa.