While Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for Raisi, there was little of the emotional rhetoric that accompanied the death of Qasem Soleimani, a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary ...

The doctor who dared treat him was soon arrested and executed. At his memorial service, Soleimani’s father gave a fiery political speech, denouncing the government for its brutality and inhumanity.

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When the Assad regime faced defeat in 2012, it was Soleimani who brought in Shi'ite militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan to Syria, and then the Russians in 2015. When ISIS overran ...