In the early morning of January 3, 2020, the Iraqi capital Baghdad International Airport was on fire, and the originally orderly airport was instantly chaotic.
That day, it was the day when Iraq ushered in a big man, but I didn't expect that this big man would be followed by three Hellfire missiles from the United States.
Who can make the United States assassinate so openly, and how powerful he is, so that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Ayatolla, President Hassan Rouhani, and Foreign Minister Zarif all issued a strong warning to the United States.
Khamenei said "harsh retaliation" awaited the United States. Rouhani also said he wanted "revenge," while Zarif said the United States would bear all the consequences for its "adventuristic" move.
This figure who made the United States blatantly violate international law to kill is the famous Iranian "second-in-command" Qasim Soleimani.
Although he is the second-in-command, he is a god-like existence in Iran and even the entire Middle East, and he is called a "shadow commander" by the West; Single-handedly become America's strongest and most hated adversary in the Middle East; He advised in several Middle East military conflicts, led Middle Eastern countries to severely damage the US military, and once forced the United States to give up its interests in the Middle East.
He has been anti-American all his life and fought for Iran all his life, such a person, of course, the United States does not allow him to exist, so, after getting rid of Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi, the United States extended its dark hand to Soleimani.
Soleimani was born in March 1957 in the village of Lapol, Kerman Province, Iran. At that time, Iran was still under the Pahlavi dynasty, which at first was powerful and wealthy, and its economy grew rapidly, becoming the ninth largest economy in the world for a time.
And Pahlavi was friendly with the then US President Carter, so this little overlord in the Middle East was also no one dared to mess with it at that time, but later, Pahlavi came to an industrialization movement with land as the core.
His original intention was to solve the various social crises brought about by Iran's urbanization process through this campaign, but he did not expect to backfire, but planted the flame of abandonment for himself.
The traditional strata are dissatisfied with Pahlavi's rule, the people at the bottom are also complaining, and the entire Iranian reform is corrupt and degenerate, and it is only a matter of time before it is overthrown.
At the age of 13, in order to help his father pay off his debts, he began to work, used his spare time to lift weights and exercise, actively participated in the sermons given by the disciples of Iran's current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Ali Khamenei, and soon became fascinated by the Iranian revolution.
In 1979, at the age of 22, Soleimani joined the newly formed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and fought in the Iran-Iraq war, after only six weeks of tactical training.
It can only be said that some people are born fighters, and in this bloody storm, he crossed the Iraqi border, went deep into enemy territory, helped his comrades, and showed his military talent.
In 1998, Soleimani became the commander of the Quds Force, an important part of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The "Quds Force" is directly under the orders of Iran's supreme leader, mainly responsible for intelligence collection, secret diplomacy, and providing funds, weapons, training and other tasks for Iran-supported foreign forces. And Soleimani is also deeply trusted by Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei and praised as a "living martyr".
It has to be said that Sulaimani is not only a natural fighter, he is also a natural politician and strategist, and he will always use the international situation to seek the best interests for Iran.
After 911, in order to protect the forces of the Afghan Shiites, he sent people to Switzerland to meet with the US military, and the two sides fought the common enemy, the Taliban, and also provided the United States with a list of Taliban military targets collected from Afghanistan.
After the overthrow of Saddam's regime in Iraq, he immediately commanded the "Quds Force" into Iraq, partly to establish Iranian influence in Iraq.
On the other hand, it taught local anti-American Shiites how to make simple and effective explosive devices, and Soleimani's methods proved to be effective, and at least 600 people died at the hands of anti-American forces commanded by Soleimani in the Iraq war.
Therefore, it can be seen that Sulaimani is a very sober person, for the interests of his country, he can cooperate with the United States with a smile on the front foot, and the back foot can directly counterattack the United States and hit a surprise.
Such a Sulaimani, if it is a friend, it is not bad, if it is an opponent, it is not to blame the United States for doing everything possible to get rid of it.
Similarly, in the Syrian civil war, the reason why the Assad regime was able to "salted fish to turn over" was also because of Sulaimani, after the outbreak of the civil war.
Although Sulaimani immediately organized the Lebanese Allah Party, Afghan Shiite militia and Revolutionary Guard military advisers to enter Syria to assist the Assad regime in the battle, as more and more anti-government forces entered, Sulaimani gradually became inadequate.
On the verge of dying, he thought of Putin, so in July 2015, Soleimani personally traveled to Russia to persuade Putin the Great to send troops, and in fact, he did.
Of course, in addition to the contradictions between Russia and the United States itself, Sulaimani's own influence can also affect Putin the Great's decision-making to a certain extent.
The "Quds Force" led by Sulaimani has 15,000 people in itself, and he has also supported more than 100,000 militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
In the matter of anti-Americanism, Soleimani also deserved, in 2019 alone, he attacked the Persian Gulf oil tanker, shot down the US Global Hawk drone, and attacked Saudi oil facilities.
Sulaimani did all these seemingly impossible things, and he knew even things that the US military did not know, and as a result, Sulaimani was also called the "spy king of the Middle East" by the Western media.
In the words of General McChrystall, Soleimani is not only a soldier, he is calculating, down-to-earth, and can be said to be a strategist.
In Soleimani's mind, nothing is more important than the interests of the country, so he spent his whole life fighting for Iran and guarding the land that gave birth to him and raised him.
For the sake of the country, he can cooperate with the United States, and he can unite more countries, organizations, and individuals, even in historically antagonistic countries like Iraq, and establish lasting and reliable relationships with their politicians and military officers.
More importantly, with the help of the Iraq War and the War on Terror, he single-handedly built a deep transnational Shiite military alliance that no one in history has ever done.
In the Syrian civil war, it seems that he only saved the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but in fact, he disrupted the "ambition" of the United States to infiltrate the Middle East and defeated the "Islamic State" and other rebel organizations.
After Soleimani's death, Iran announced the suspension of the implementation of the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iraq also demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, the global oil price soared because of the situation between the United States and Iran, Iran listed the United States and the United States defense as a "terrorist organization".
And the Iranians were equally angry, large-scale "anti-American" demonstrations, thousands of people took to the streets to see them off, and the whole country mourned for three days.
At that time, the New York Times of the United States said: "The United States had better prepare for war with Iran, a national conflict does not necessarily occur, but it is more likely than at any time in more than a decade."
This shows how big Sulaimani's influence is.
In fact, it can also be seen from this "beheading" action of the United States that getting rid of Sulaimani is nothing more than because he is in the way of the United States, and Sulaimani has completely disrupted the political and military deployment of the United States in the Middle East by himself, directly harming the interests of the United States.
He is too strong, whether it is military or political or popular support, so the United States does not allow him to exist, which also shows that the United States has never given up unilateralism and global hegemony, and its desire to dominate the world has not stopped since World War II.
Although after the death of Soleimani, the Middle East world set off huge waves, the Iranian government purged it, and Iranians contributed $8 million to Trump's head, but the old man with two white strokes passed away.