Four years after the assassination by US troops around Baghdad International Airport, the figure of the “martyr” Qasem Soleimani, Head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he is now more than ever one of them the unifying and coherent figures of a regime under intense tension and internal and external threats when 45 years have passed since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.
The commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the powerful general's assassination around the cemetery where his remains – and his hometown – are venerated in the southern city of Kerman was yesterday the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack registered in the country since 1979. The recorded double explosion in the middle of the crowd gathered to commemorate Soleimani had caused the death of 103 people – the number of victims is expected to continue to rise – and at the end of this text two hundred more injured. The mullahs' regime has hastened to elevate those who died as a result of a massacre to the category of martyrs, whose authorship remains a mystery at the moment.
On the eve of the fourth anniversary – and yesterday's attack – of the Ayatollah Ali Khameneiwhich linked the attacks to “devilish and criminal enemies” and warned of a “harsh response,” asserted that “General Soleimani's most important role and service was the revival of the resistance front in West Asia,” the report said . IRNA state agency. “The strengthening of the resistance front must continue”added the regime's supreme leader.
Ayatollah Khamenei has reiterated since his death that Soleimani was the one “a living martyr” For the Islamic Republic, a key figure in the fight against one of its biggest regional threats: the jihadist and Sunni Islamic State. For the US, Soleimani was nothing more than the architect of the network of pro-Iranian proxy forces and militias abroad.
At the end of December last year, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards said, Ramazan SharifWith regard to the recent elimination near Damascus of another high-ranking member of the organization, Razi Mousavi, assured that the chain of attacks carried out in Israel on October 7 by members of the Al-Qassam Brigades Hamas' delayed revenge for Soleimani's death.
It is not for nothing that the leader of the Islamic Jihad in Iran, Nasser Abu Sharif, In the final hours, he described the general killed by the Trump administration as an ideologue of the “Axis of Resistance,” which the Iranian regime is responsible for promoting amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza: “In 2005, when this project in Palestine began, the Gaza Strip was occupied by the Zionist regime and it was very difficult to obtain weapons for the people of Gaza. We are already witnessing that Gaza has forced the Zionist regime to enter the largest war in its entire history.” “Now we see the results and achievements of the Axis of Resistance that he (Soleimani) designed,” concluded the Islamist leader Organization that promotes an Islamic state in Palestinian territories, in another interview in an official Iranian agency yesterday.
Four years after his death, the figure of Soleimani – along with several members of pro-Iran Iraqi militias – continues to be the object of veneration rivaled only by that of the Ayatollahs, the regime's supreme leaders (the mysterious general's funeral in January). 2020 They were comparable only in terms of the number of people gathered to those celebrating the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in June 1989.). And that will continue to be the case in a regime increasingly contested internally by a youth eager for change and democracy and hit hard abroad, particularly since the Israeli offensive against Tehran's proxies began on October 7. Since yesterday, the Shiite autocracy also knows what it is like to be cruelly beaten in the spiritual heart of the regime.