He was mostly stationed at the southern front. He quickly earned a reputation for bravery, and rose through the ranks because of his role in successful operations to retake the lands Iraq had occupied, and eventually became the commander of the 41st Tharallah Division while still in his 20s, participating in most major operations. On 22 September 1980, when Saddam Hussein launched an invasion of Iran, setting off the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Soleimani joined the battlefield serving as the leader of a military company, consisting of men from Kerman whom he assembled and trained. Qasem Soleimani, commander of the 41st Tharallah Division in Iran-Iraq war, Third person from the left military bases in Iraq while no lives were lost in the second attack, the Pentagon reported that 110 American troops were wounded in the strikes. Hours after his burial on 7 January 2020, the Iranian military launched missiles against U.S. The strike was strongly condemned by some, including the Iranian government, and a mass multi-city funeral was held in both Iraq and Iran for Soleimani and other casualties caused by the drone strike. Soleimani was assassinated in a targeted American drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq, on the orders of U.S. Soleimani was personally sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, and was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005. Soleimani was amongst the most popular personalities in Iran, viewed by many as a "selfless hero fighting Iran's enemies", by others as a "murderer". He masterminded Iran's intervention in Iraq and had a significant role in Iran's fight against ISIL. Following the militant expansion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014, Soleimani coordinated and assisted Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia militia forces in Iraq.
He ran Iran's operations in the Syrian Civil War and helped plan and organize the Russian military intervention in Syria.
In 2012, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, Soleimani helped bolster the Government of Syria and its president, Bashar al-Assad, a key Iranian ally. Soleimani also provided extensive assistance to Hezbollah in Lebanon. forces in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Following the September 11 attacks on the United States, Iranian diplomats under his direction cooperated with U.S. He was later involved in extraterritorial operations, and in the late 1990s became commander of the IRGC Quds Force. He assembled and led a company of soldiers when the Iran–Iraq War began in September 1980, eventually rising through the ranks to become the commander of the 41st Tharallah Division in his 20s.
Īs a civilian, Soleimani initially worked in construction before joining the IRGC during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. 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. 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. Qasem Soleimani ( Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, pronounced 11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike †.Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017).Aleppo offensive (September–October 2016).Special forces operation to rescue Russian pilot.
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