Meet A Main Man In Iran's Fight With The United States

From The Daily Star:

Let's try for a moment to put ourselves in the mind of Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. For it is the soft-spoken Soleimani, not Iran's bombastic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who plays a decisive role in his nation's confrontation with the United States.

Soleimani represents the sharp point of the Iranian spear. He is responsible for Iran's covert activities in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and other battlegrounds. He oversees the regime's relations with its militant proxies, Hizbullah and Hamas. His elite, secretive wing of the Revolutionary Guard is identified as a terrorist organization by the Bush administration, but he is also Iran's leading strategist on foreign policy. He reports personally to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his budget (mostly in cash) comes directly from the supreme leader's office.

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My Comment: The key sentence that I picked up right away was the following .... The Quds Force commander prefers to run out the clock on the Bush administration, hoping that the next administration will be more favorable to Iran's interests ....

Iran is hopeful that a new U.S. administration will give-in to the strategic demands of Iran. That for all of its faults, the Bush Administration has perceived the Iranians for the threat that they are ... and have responded in kind. Will a Barack or McCain administration see the same thing .... it looks like (from the Iranian point of view) that they will not.