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Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning for the Russian military intervention that has reshaped the Syrian war and forged a new Iran–Russia alliance in support of the Syrian (and Iraqi) governments. Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, also sent a senior envoy to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin.
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he directed the U.S. military to help Israel shoot down Iranian missiles -- an attack, Biden said, that appears to have been "defeated and ineffective." "This is ...
Colonel. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei (Persian: حسن صیاد خدایی, 1972 - May 22, 2022) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Serving as a Holy Shrine Defender, he was assassinated on 22 May 2022 by motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of his home. Iran has blamed the assassination on "global ...
Iran vows response to Guards deputy commander killing in Lebanon. September 29, 2024 at 6:39 AM. DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that the killing by Israel of ...
The following individuals have been identified as commanding officers (currently or in the past) of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (AJA), which is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. Chiefs of the Joint Staff
The position of Commander-in-Chief (Farmandehe Koll-e Qova (Persian: فرمانده کل قوا), formerly known as Bozorg Arteshtārān (Persian: بزرگارتشتاران), is the ultimate authority of all the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, and the highest possible military position within the Islamic Republic of Iran.