Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)
Times of Israel: Iran says it foiled ‘Israel-Arab’ plot to assassinate top military commander
Three arrested in plan that allegedly involved blowing up Qassem Soleimani during a memorial service for his father.
Iran thwarted what it described as an “Israel-Arab” plot to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian media reported Thursday.
The Guard’s intelligence chief, Hossein Taeb, told an annual conference of IRGC commanders that three people had been arrested in connection with the plan.
Taeb said the plot had been worked on for a number of years and involved blowing up Soleimani at a memorial service for his father during the Muslim holy month of Muharram, which begin in early September, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
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Update #1: Iran says thwarts attack on top commander, arrests 3 (AFP)
Update #2: Iran claims it thwarted Arab-Israeli plot to assassinate IRGC Quds Force leader Soleimani (Jerusalem Post)
WNU Editor: Apparently he has had a lot of close calls .... Iran’s Soleimani claims he and Nasrallah barely escaped Israeli air raid in 2006 (Times of Israel).
Update #3: Why now? Soleimani just gave his first interview in 20 years .... Shadowy Iran commander Qassem Soleimani gives rare interview on 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war (The National).
Assassinating him is a bad idea. Maiming him is a better idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm in full favor of 'mackerel-eyes' Soleimani assuming room temp.
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ReplyDeleteMay God bless and protect Mr. Soleimani.
ReplyDeleteMay this hero continue to lead the resistance axis to more and greater victories!
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:49PM,
Couldn't agree more. Everyone knows Iran can't support it's current population. What better way to whittle down the numbers than protecting Iran's favorite general.
Here's how General Soleimani dealt with this overpopulation problem years ago; when confronted with Iraqi minefields during the Iran-Iraq war, General Soleimani coerced thousands of children conscripted into the Iranian armed forces to clear those minefields by walking through them earning glorious martyrdom for eternity if, Allah willing, they triggered one. Many did, freeing up rations for others and thereby reducing hunger and over population.
Pure genius. Mines cleared, over-mouthed population reduced.
As Oliver Hardy once said to Stan, "What could be more simple?"