As distant as it may seem now, there was once a time when the US worked with Qasem Soleimani
By killing Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, the US struck Iran’s ambitions in the Middle East a devastating blow and raised the odds of an all-out conflict.
There were therefore, occasions, such as the War in Afghanistan and the War against Daesh, when Soleimani and the US fought on the same side. In Lebanon, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp trained Hezbollah movement serves as the nemesis to Washington’s strongest ally, Israel. As Iran’s main man in the Middle East, Soleimani served as the group’s ultimate source of command, as he did for Iranian allied forces fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani attends Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's meeting with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Tehran, Iran on September 18, 2016. According to the New Yorker, the Iranians were eager to cooperate with the Americans in order to bring the Taliban down.“You don’t live through eight years of brutal war without being pretty pragmatic,” Soleimani isThe cooperation, which resulted in military gains and the detention of Al Qaeda suspects, lasted throughout the first phase of the war in Afghanistan.That changed when in 2002 then-US President George W Bush listed Iran, alongside Iraq and North Korea, in its axis of evil.
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