In July 2018, after President Donald Trump warned Iran's president not to threaten the United States, a rejoinder came not from the Iranian leader but from a military figure perhaps even more powerful."It is beneath the dignity of our president to respond to you," Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani
In July 2018, after President Donald Trump warned Iran’s president not to threaten the United States, a rejoinder came not from the Iranian leader but from a military figure perhaps even more powerful.
That Soleimani was in Iraq when he was killed at age 62, at Baghdad International Airport, was not surprising. A senior Iraqi intelligence official once told U.S. officials in Baghdad that Soleimani had described himself as the “sole authority for Iranian actions in Iraq.”“We are near you, where you can’t even imagine,” he said. “We are ready. We are the man of this arena.”After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein, the United States accused Soleimani of plotting attacks on U.S. soldiers.
But at times, the adversary looked more like ally, however tenuous the relationship. U.S. officials cooperated with the Iranian general in Iraq to reverse gains made by the Islamic State — a mutual enemy.
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