'The puppet master is dead': Why Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani's killing is such a big deal
Iran's Supreme Leader has called for three days of mourning after the country's most powerful general was taken out in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on Thursday night.
Thousands of supporters have taken to the streets in Iran in protest to the killing, with leaders in the country and militant group Hezbollah vowing revenge against the U.S.Iranians hold posters of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Qasem Soleimani during a demonstration in the capital Tehran on January 3, 2020 against the killing of the top commander in a US strike in Baghdad.The U.S.'s targeted killing of Iranian Maj. Gen.
But in recent years he's become something of a celebrity and the face of Iran's expanded influence across the Middle East. He was known as the mastermind behind the Islamic Republic's vast network of proxies stretching from Iraq and Lebanon to Syria and Yemen. And the unique power Soleimani held to shape Iran's foreign policy and carry out covert offensive acts — what the Trump administration dubs "malign activity" against U.S. regional interests and allies — made him unparalleled as a military and intelligence operative in the region.
"Qasem Soleimani is a unique figure," Knights elaborated. "We don't have anyone like him in the U.S., and because he was experienced, capable and had the complete trust of the supreme leader of Iran, they over-concentrated an awful lot of their capability and their prestige in one man.
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