Kassem Sulejmani
2 January 2020 year in Baghdad was killed Qasem Soleimani. This event is necessary to understand and make the right conclusions from it. And immediately. because, it is to our future most relevant. direct.
Alas, but the domestic audience not really know how to "understanding". Until now, murdered simply called the Iranian general. Yes, strictly formal, it was Iranian general, but he is still in 2009 He could shift the Iranian president, though not one.
Of course, strictly formal, it was just part of the commander of the Iranian special operations forces. But in fact he controlled a vast transnational financial empire, rich enough, to sponsor the entire Iranian war machine in the Middle East, without getting out of the budget of the country no rial. And a giant network of non-state armies, one of which was, such as "Hezbollah", but it was not the only. He fought for even Christians, he was able to win over even the mortal enemies of Iran and all the Shiites in the world - "Al-Qaeda" (banned in Russia). Kurds, a restraint that Iran began his military career, Iraq hid him from his main allies - Americans.
Yes, it is his official status was not the equal of many in Iran. And in fact, he gave orders to foreign presidents how his subordinates - and they carried them unquestioningly.
Once Qasem Soleimani was a boy, We try to find at least some work, to help save the peasant father from arrest for debt. The day before his death, the number of people, of great, than he, power, there were fewer, than fingers. In the world, not in Iran. In Iran, however, too - only Ayatollah Khamenei could send him into retirement, if he wanted. But he would not want to, because Sulejmani was a national hero, which will be remembered for many years after, Khamenei name will be forgotten forever by all. Part of the national pantheon, figure, commensurate Saladin in Shiite Muslim world. Human, run Iraq and the war in Syria at the same time. Human, personally acquainted with Bashar al-Assad and, apparently, with Vladimir Putin. A friend of Hassan Nasrallah. In Iran, he is credited with the idea to call Russia to Syria. it, apparently, not true, but the scale of the individual Sulejmani quite gives grounds for such rumors.
In the world today there is almost no commensurate on personality scales. Putin unless. Xi Jinping more, perhaps. Even killed Sulejmani Trump does not hold, however, it happens, people kill those simpler, who surpasses them in their personal qualities. Particularly simply is obtained, when for no reason, from the corner.
Sulejmani dry would have won the presidential election in Iran, if only wanted. But he was at the time refused a political career, saying,: "I want to be a soldier of the revolution". In Iran, it was called the word "sardar" - Commander. Of course, it is also one of the Iranian traditions - so called high-ranking officers, in press, eg. That's just all teams have names, and a Commander in Iran was one. And there will be one.
It was a living legend. Pretty scary legend, it is impossible not to recognize, but the legend. Man symbol. Even his death is full of symbols, like nobody else. In the history of Russian somasshtabnymi personality were also, eg, Ermak. But it was their little. Yes, and no one they have not had much.
He was the, who sought peace with the Americans and Iran has successfully led to it, and then he became the, who destroyed the largest number of American soldiers after Vietnam. And not by choice. He crushed the American plans in Iraq and Iraq has won for his country. He fought for the reincarnation of the Persian Empire like no other, and almost won.
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He was killed by weapons, specially created for secret killings. Useless in war, but effective for those secret murders, who can not defend themselves here and now. arms, which is now itself - symbol, only a symbol of another country - United States. Crystal clear symbol.
And in his death concluded lessons. And a lot of them too.
But first things first.
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It makes no sense to retell the biography Qasem Soleimani. it is public, including in Russian. But something that is worth comment. Going to war with Iraq, a junior officer, Sulejmani scored a level of bravery and military capabilities, I got a phenomenal career. Entry into a KSYR 22 of the year, at thirty he had commanded a division, and your first connection, infantry brigade, I received 27 years. However, those, who served with him, celebrated, that he retained that attitude towards human life, which is rather characteristic of a junior officer. Soleimani has always taken losses in his units hard. Then, in the eighties, he was one of the first officers in Iran, raised their voice against "wasteful" methods of warfare, practiced by Iranians. maybe, that it affected his style of conducting future operations.
After the war with Iraq ended, Iranian authorities began to look for a way to "resolve issues" with neighbors at a less terrible cost, as it was in the war with Iraq. Moreover, Iran, constantly falling under one, then under other sanctions, just had no money for big wars. logical and, most importantly, appropriate to the local cultural paradigm, was the creation of forces, capable of waging an irregular war that exhausted and fettered the enemy on the distant approaches to Iran. The ideal basis for such forces was the formation, erroneously referred to in the press by the Arabic word "Al-Quds". In fact, in Farsi it is called "Kods", true, means the same - "Jerusalem".
From the very beginning of the war with Iraq "Qods" I led an irregular war in Iraqi Kurdistan, and started subversive anti-Israeli activities in Lebanon since 1982,. It was then that "Hezbollah" was created, "Straddling" anti-Israeli and anti-Christian sentiment in Lebanon after the events of 1982.
After the war with Iran "Quds" had to go to the next level. And for that he needed a new commander.
AT 1998 this year became commander Sulejmani. By that time, behind him were not only the battles of the Iran-Iraq war, and operations against Kurdish rebels in Iran, but also successful operations in the large-scale and bloody war on drugs on the Afghan border.
The domestic reader is also unaware of these events., and these were large-scale and bloody events. Soleimani finally built his reputation in the chaos of the war of all against all, where the Iranian military had to repel the attacks of gangs hired by drug traffickers and catch bullets with his hand in the back at the same time, where mountains were mined and paths were blocked with the help of engineering structures, where you had to go on raids on drug caravans, lie in ambush and win without outside help. Without artillery or aviation. In the war, where roadblocks and strong points of Iranians were taken systematically besieged and subjected to raids from Afghanistan, and in the streets of Iranian cities bordering the drug mafia has killed any military indiscriminately, even ordinary, though the generals - and so over the years.
It is in this hell infantry commander Sulejmani showed himself a master of irregular war. After that, his appointment to the new post was a logical.
Following the appointment of Sulejmani enters into the swing of things, and gradually expands the anti-Saddam operation in Iran, and subversive activities against the movement "Taliban" (It banned in Russia) in Afghanistan. He also dramatically increased Qods' ties with Lebanese Hezbollah., having achieved an increase in assistance to this movement from Iran, including people.
But that rise in his career, who made him one of the unspoken rulers of the Shiite world, Soleimani became thanks to the Americans. It was the struggle with them that made him so, who was he.
But that wasn't it, what did the iranians want, and not that, What did Soleimani want?.
As is known, after the events 11 September 2001 in the United States, Russia provided various support to the United States in its operations in Afghanistan. Less known, that Iran provided similar support.
Soleimani was responsible for interaction with the United States on the Iranian side., whom Americans then knew as Hadji Kassem. It was Iran that provided the United States with the most detailed information about the location of the bases and detachments of the Taliban., the same, which was mined by Qods operatives in their dangerous operations on Afghan territory. Soleimani even carried out arrests of al-Qaeda operatives in Iran and ensured their delivery to Afghanistan.. As the Americans later recalled, working with the Iranians, it was a very profitable cooperation.
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Everything changed dramatically in January. 2002 of the year, when US President George W. Bush, in his annual message to Congress, declared Iran part of some kind of "axis of evil".
This shocked the Iranians, who already considered the US as an ally in the fight against the Taliban, and those American diplomats, who collaborated with them. But it was a fact. For Soleimani himself, this was a problem also because, that he, in a sense, put on the Americans. And now they have made such a trick.
Republicans, but, didn't care about that, who and in what way helped their country. They wanted to kill and destroy, their, by and large, even the surrender of those countries was not interested, who were designated America's victims, they were interested in corpses, and Iran was also on the list. But after Iraq.
AT 2003 year the American army crushed Iraq. Iran did not protest much against the collapse of its archenemy, whose aggression claimed nearly half a million Iraqi lives. Furthermore, led by Soleimani, after the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Iranians again got in touch with their old counterparties.
true, there was more fear in their behavior now. They clearly seemed, that their country will be next, however, at the time of the American invasion of Iraq, it was planned.
Few people know, but the first occupation government in Iraq was created by the Americans with the participation of Qasem Soleimani. He participated in the selection of candidates and coordinated them with the Americans. true, it's all over soon.
One side, no gestures of goodwill towards the United States worked. It seemed, that the Yankees have turned into cannibal fanatics, obsessed with the idea of destroying everyone, referring to Iran in the first place. But on the other side, And at the same time, was seen, that they are skidding in Iraq.
2004 year - year, when the Iranians conducted their reassessment of the situation. Now she looked different: The USA was still a maniac country, fallen into madness, but now this maniac is clearly stuck on his two wars, leading for no reason. Now, after the failure of attempts to cooperate with the Americans, another strategy became logical - to do so, to get them stuck in a guerrilla war. And "Kods" immediately got down to business. Soleimani's people massively trained different, independent Shia factions, who immediately began to attack the Americans, and Iranian proxies in the Iraqi government were actively sabotaging American efforts to restore order. During the year, the Iranians managed to raise a powerful wave of resistance.
They also managed to seriously arm the rebels. for example, Americans widely used armored cars protected from explosions and small arms, designated as MRAP - Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected. These cars protected the crews well., and the destruction of the American occupiers was a problem for the Iraqis. The Iranians very quickly created portable mines with a warhead of the "shock core" type, set up their production and delivery to Iraq. These mines easily hit the monstrous American armored cars and claimed the lives of hundreds of American soldiers.. And it was also the work of Soleimani.
His activities in Iraq are professionally efficient and persianly insidious., deserves a separate description. The Americans tried to capture it - unsuccessfully.. He also made mistakes..., the involvement of al-Qaeda in operations against the United States ended as a result of attacks by its militants on Iraqi Shiites, what is Soleimani's personal mistake. Americans, true, they killed too, so it wasn't a big mistake..
In addition to the war to weaken the United States, Soleimani was doing, so that a strong, a government capable of threatening Iran, and also successful.
The result of these efforts is known. AT 2011 The United States officially ended its occupation of Iraq, minimizing its presence in this country. There could be no more talk of an invasion of Iran, and Iraq itself was flooded with Iraqi militias, able to easily defeat the official Iraqi army, the Iraqi government itself was directly controlled from Tehran, moreover, Suleimani personally controlled it.
Simultaneously with the war, Soleimani was creating an economic basis for his operations.. Taking control of banks and oil supplies in Iraq, and then in other places, he got it, that his military empire was self-financing. It was exactly that, what the Iranians wanted after the war with Iraq: issues of their defense capability were resolved, first of all yourself, without involving large masses of Iranian troops, Secondly, effectively, third, outside Iranian territory, and fourthly, also for free
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The outbreak of an American-inspired terrorist war in the region has made Soleimani even more in demand. And in Iraq, and in Syria the brunt of the wars against terrorist groups, once created with the participation of the United States, carried by various militias and Shiite groups, created by the IRGC. In Syria, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the brainchild of Qods, became the most combat-ready units, patronized Soleimani. At some point, Soleimani turned out to be a man, managing all the wars in Iraq and Syria at once.
Iranians, but, not enough resources. If Assad was helped by them and Russia, then the terrorists were pumped with money and resources by the entire pro-Western world. In Iraq, the U.S. delayed arms deliveries to the official Iraqi army until then., while ISIS (It banned in Russia) did not reach the boundaries assigned to him by the puppeteers from Washington, and did not strike terrorists until then, until it happened. The IRGC also used its aircraft there, and your armored vehicles. And if in Iraq there were somehow enough Iranian resources, to at least stop the advance of the terrorists, then in Syria things were going very badly. It got to the, what routes, along which the Assad family moved in everyday life, began to be subjected to mortar attacks - and no way out was visible.
But soon Russia appeared in Syria, Americans in Iraq began to rein in their unbridled offspring - ISIS, and Suleimani was again able to achieve success. In Russia, everyone knows about the role of the Russian Aerospace Forces, but few people know, somewhere before 2016 of the year, almost the entire war on earth was “taken out” by Iran - the Syrian army had almost completely lost its combat capability by a certain point. The Iranians did it badly and stupidly, but there were no other troops then.
In general, in the success of the fight against terror in Syria, the role of Soleimani's people is comparable to the role of Russia. Now the situation is different, Russia was able to create its own, non-Iranian-controlled ground forces in that country, but at the beginning of our intervention in the conflict, everything was different.
And if in our public consciousness the symbol of the Syrian turning point is a bomber with red stars on the planes, then in Iran it is a portrait of Qassem Soleimani. Commander.
In the West, he is considered a terrorist. And indeed - in the means neither he, nor his men held back. But one should not condemn them indiscriminately - without exception, all participants in the wars in the region, except Russia, up to their necks in war crimes, which they did voluntarily and knowingly. And it is unlikely that, from the point of view of common sense, the passage of ISIS fighters by the Americans from Iraq to Syria before the re-capture of Palmyra is something worse, than the help of the Iranians to Hezbollah in obtaining missiles, which are guaranteed to fly to residential areas. Israeli phosphorus bombs over Gaza kill far more, than the Iranians have killed in all the years since the Islamic Revolution. And when someone gives everything that happens hysterical moral assessments, then such a person should start from the other side, which he considers his.
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neither the Iranians, Sulejmani or have not been and are not angels with wings. But against the background of Americans and Israelis, these are just children. Worth remembering this, when someone throws another tantrum.
Qasem Soleimani died in the conditions, when he, neither his organization has been in any military action against the US for a long time and when the US has not been in any military action against Iranian forces for a long time. Killed during a multi-year unspoken truce. is he, properly, that's why he didn't hide, and calmly flew to Baghdad airport by plane, sat, not hiding, in the car and drove through the night city.
Idea of that, that he acted like that, having given before that a command to carry out an indiscriminate harassing shelling of an American base, did not lead to any serious losses of the enemy, looks, to put it mildly, foolishly.
Yes, the Americans themselves formulate the reason for his murder differently. You have to understand, that their words are lies anyway.
Qasem Soleimani was killed by a rocket, unofficially called by the Americans "Ninja" - Hellfire 9X. Its specific feature is, that instead of a warhead with explosives, she uses knives to hit the target - six long blades of this size, that with the defeat of the model car cut into pieces all, who goes to the salon. These weapons, specially designed for the killings, in the war against the real enemy is useless. Such missiles cannot hit armored vehicles.. They are made just for that., to open cars and kill their passengers.
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It's symbolic. If Qasem Soleimani is a symbol of Iran, then his death is a symbol of the USA. Killing a former enemy, with whom there has been no war for a long time and who does not hide, moreover, the enemy, who once sought American friendship, but whose country the United States sentenced to death, with weapons, which was created specifically for covert assassinations of people, unable to defend themselves. American culture as it is a symbol. Yes, some of the people cut by the ninja blades are actually terrorists.
even those, who was once taught and trained by the Americans themselves.
But Soleimani was not on that list..
Why did Trump do it?
This article is being written on Saturday, 4 January. And on Sunday, 5 January, the Iraqi parliament must decide: to stay American troops in the country after this or not. We venture to assume the following.
Trump promised to withdraw troops from Iraq, and Syria. At the same time, he needs all the support during the coming impeachment process. impeachment this, of course, doomed, but the pressure, that neocons have on trump, truly scary.
Trump has already tried to get out of Syria, but it was his impulse that was successfully sabotaged. And he can't overcome neocon resistance.
But what if the further presence of troops there becomes technically impossible? Then the neocons will have to accept. There will be no choice. And Trump becomes a man, who fulfilled his promise to withdraw from Iraq and Syria. But how to do that? How to make, to find troops and Iraq and Syria has become impossible? Here no neocons not cope.
In such circumstances, to do something, for US Iraqis themselves out on necks of their country, - quite a decision. This means, and Syria will have to leave, because the supply group there can be only through Iraq.
It turns out, that Trump could well have "set up". Kill an old enemy and at the cost of his life solve your domestic political problems. Why not?
Quite possible, that the reason for the assassination of Soleimani is precisely this. It was an iconic figure, and the Iranians simply will not be able to close their eyes to his death - not the scale. Quite possible, that the expulsion of Americans from Iraq as a "response" is what, What is the American President really up to?.
Leaks are already spreading through the regional media about, that Pompeo invites the Iranians to respond proportionately and calm down on this, that the United States "punch" a future Iranian reaction and in general in the war are not interested. Then what they sought?
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the, how the US treated with Iran and its general, - example, confirming many times voiced rule of life on this planet: no peaceful coexistence with the United States can not be. in no way, basically. no concessions, any help, no assistance will not keep Americans refuse to destroy the country plans, that they are "sentenced". They can not agree, We can not come to an understanding. It's impossible.
Sulejmani tried, and his country was trying to. The result is obvious. USSR tried, and it is also no. Saddam Hussein was a welcome guest in the United States in the '80s - even the Americans have supplied him with chemical weapons. His country was destroyed, children killed and then he, too,. Gaddafi put a lot of efforts to normalize relations with the US, and everyone knows, which he finished, and in Libya today slave markets in place of schools and hospitals. Assad has tried to establish relations with the US, I gave them terrorists, shared information and to begin negotiations with Israel on the Golan. The result is known. Russia supported the US after September 11,. At present the number of those killed in Ukraine ethnic Russian many thousands, and killed them with the support of the United States. examples of mass.
Once again - there is no peaceful coexistence between the United States can not be c, attempts to reach such a waste of time.
This is the lesson, which we see again in the biography Qasem Soleimani. As previously seen in other examples,.
The conclusions for the future more difficult. If the US motives really are, they seem, the Trump can really get out of the quagmire of the Middle East. And then his hands will be untied. At present obsession of the Americans is the desire to "besiege" China. But China behind a weak, according to the US, country baluster - Russia. If it knock, that China's position in the confrontation with the United States strongly weakened.
And it does not matter, how this line of thought is correct: and Napoleon, Hitler thought the same way, but this did not prevent the second of them to repeat the mistake of the first. Americans think in a similar way.
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This means, Trump's free hand can leave us a sideways - and much. His words about wanting good relations with Russia - it's only words, Americans are not able to be understood by them something, but our surrender, both at the time of the USSR. At least, within the political elite.
However, the idea of using Russian as a battering ram against the Chinese and "poreshat Chinese question" proxy there also stirs some minds. And even finds traitorous supporters in Russia, Alas.
In this way, our interest in, to hand Trump unleashed. They then need to be linked and Afghanistan, and Syria, and Iraq. Necessary, the US stuck there for as long as possible.
The Americans built the world many dead Americans is little dead Russian, and vice versa. We willy-nilly will have to play by these rules.
This means, all the efforts of Russia in the conditions of the crisis provoked by the assassination of Soleimani by the Americans should contribute to a simple thing - they cannot be allowed to quickly leave the region. They must stay there., they have to spend their resources and money there, they must die there.
There is also something else. Iran thanks to the efforts of such people, like Soleimani, is actively intensifying, and soon, if everything goes like this, how is it going, we will see a new edition of the Persian Empire. Historical experience speaks, that this is not good for Russia. Iran already has expansionist plans in the post-Soviet space, and some - together with China. The combined resources of Iran and China are incommensurably greater than ours..
Cynical, but how much we need the eternal war of America is not clear why and it is not clear where, it would be just as useful for us, if this same America besieged Iran. Furthermore, playing a mess on the side Iranian, can finally make the Americans pay for their past atrocities. Take direct blood tax, as, eg, In Korea. And how perfect results - a bleeding wound USA, which will not allow them at least some time to conduct its undeclared war against us, and attenuated and safe for Russia Iran, which it will be possible to make a very profitable economic partner in this case,.
We did not create the world, which is arranged in this way. This means, we can and must defend themselves and from the real, and from future threats, without feeling any remorse about it. because, that to us no such qualms will not experience.
That's what we need to consider in connection with the death Qasem Soleimani.
Alexander Timohin
