2020-11-17 | By middleeastmonitor | 53 Hits

It is almost a year since Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani 11 March 1957 8211 3 January 2020 was killed in a US drone attack near Baghdad International Airport His final months were apparently characterised by his growing arrogance and unshakeable power quotSoleimani now often spoke in a threatening fashion to allquot writes Arash Azizi in his new book The Shadow Commander Soleimani the US and Iran39s Global Ambitions But who was Soleimani and how did he become so powerful This is what Azizi explores in his book The I >>READ MORE