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Qasem Soleimani

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Also known as Qassem Soleimani, Qassim Sulaymani, Qassim Suleimani, Haj Qassem, The Shadow Commander, Ghasem Soleymani, Ghasem Soleimani, Ghassem Soleimani

Iranian military officer (1957–2020)

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Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian male who worked from 1979 until 2020. Born on March 11, 1957, he had six children. His work period concluded with his death on January 3, 2020, and he was buried on January 7, 2020.

Soleimani is associated with several recorded statements, including claims that the Syrian Army is useless and that a single brigade of the Basij could conquer the country. He also stated that he does not abandon friends, unlike Americans, and expressed a desire to smell the scent of the children of the Martyrs.

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Gender
Male
Origin
Iran

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

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2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    · 2023 · cited 4,090x

  2. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    · 2024 · cited 2,549x

  3. Long Noncoding RNA and Cancer: A New Paradigm

    · 2017 · cited 2,271x

  4. A Landscape of Pharmacogenomic Interactions in Cancer

    · 2016 · cited 1,933x

  5. Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    · 2024 · cited 1,779x

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Quotes

  • “One type of paradise that is portrayed for mankind is streams, beautiful nymphs and greeneries. But there is another kind of paradise. ... The warfront was the lost paradise of the human beings, indeed.”
  • “Dear General Petraeus, you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Afghanistan. And indeed, the ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who’s going to replace him is a Quds Force member.”
  • “We’re not like the Americans. We don’t abandon our friends.”
  • “The Syrian Army is useless! Give me one brigade of the Basij, and I could conquer the whole country.”
  • “I entered the [[Iran-Iraq War|[Iran-Iraq] war]] on a fifteen-day mission, and ended up staying until the end. … We were all young and wanted to serve the revolution.”
  • “When I see the children of the Martyrs, I want to smell their scent, and I lose myself.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, romanized: Qâsem Soleymâni; 11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian civil war through securing Russian intervention. He was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and a "genius of asymmetric warfare". Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said Soleimani's strategies had "personally tightened a noose around Israel's neck".

In his later years, he was considered by some analysts to be the right-hand man of the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the second-most powerful person in Iran behind Khamenei. For attacks orchestrated or attempted against Americans and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, and was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005.

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