Qasem Soleimani Quotes

Iranian military officer (1957–2020)

Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, born 11 March 1957 - 3 January 2020) was an Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations. Soleimani was significantly involved in the build up the military capacity of Lebanon's Hezbollah, shaping the post-war political landscape in Iraq, and turning around the Syrian civil war. He was the director of the Iranians who assisted Americans in the initial phase of Afghanistan War through secret meetings with Ryan Crocker. In his later years, he was considered by some analysts to be the right-hand man of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, as well as the second-most powerful person in Iran behind him.

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Native Name: قاسم سلیمانی

Alternative Names: Qassem Soleimani • Qassim Sulaymani • Qassim Suleimani • Haj Qassem • The Shadow Commander • Ghasem Soleymani • Ghasem Soleimani • Ghassem Soleimani • Ghassem Soleymani • Qasim Soleimani • Qassim Soleimani • Qasim Suleimani • Qassem Suleimani • Qassem Sulaymani • Qasem Sulaymani

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I entered the [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.

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.

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.

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