[CDN] To understand the role and position of Qasem Soleimani in the Iranian regime, we must first understand the role and position of the Revolutionary Guards and the Qods Force..
The word "Iran" does not appear in the official logo of the Revolutionary Guards for a simple reason that their mission is overseas. This entity is the main instrument of the religious leader to establish an "Islamic caliphate".
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The mission of preparing and executing the goals of the Islamic Republic was assigned to the Revolutionary Guards. In this regard, the Qods Force, as an overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards, effectively took control of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy through a number of embassies. Embassies of the Iranian regime in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan are among these "diplomatic" agencies.
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FRANCE: In the early hours of Friday, January 3, 2020, a vehicle carrying General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Qods Force, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy Commander of Hashad al-Shaba’bi and their companions, was struck by a US air raid after leaving the Iraqi airport, leading to them getting killed.
WHO WAS QASEM SOLEIMANI?
Some political observers have described Qasem Soleimani’s assassination as a breakthrough in regional equations and an irreparable setback to the mullahs’ regime. Others have described this event as losing the most powerful person in the Iranian system.
To understand the role and position of Qasem Soleimani in the Iranian regime, we must first understand the role and position of the Revolutionary Guards and the Qods Force.
Due to the religious nature of this regime, based on the dogmas of the Middle Ages, they are unable to provide a reasonable answer to the economic, political and cultural needs of their people in the 21st century.
Thus, as the Iranian opposition leader, Maryam Rajavi, profoundly has said before, this regime guarantees its survival by brutally suppressing inside Iran and violating human rights by issuing crisis, sending out terrorism and warmongering outside of the country.
The Revolutionary Guards came into existence in 1979 just three months after the Iranian regime established.
The word "Iran" does not appear in the official logo of the Revolutionary Guards for a simple reason that their mission is overseas. This entity is the main instrument of the religious leader to establish an "Islamic caliphate".
"The broader overseas aspect, which is the responsibility of the IRGC, is the country’s strategy, and sometimes it is even the most important necessity," Said Khamenei recently to the IRGC commanders (October 2, 2019, on Iranian state television).
Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, has always had a dream of an Islamic caliphate, relying on Shiite with Iran-Iraq and Syria as centers of it. And this is something that is pursued by Khamenei. The Iranian regime has to expand itself to survive.
CREATING A QODS FORCE FOR THE CIRCULATION OF FUNDAMENTALISM AND TERRORISM
After eight-years of Iran-Iraq war, there were many discussions within the Iranian regime about the future of their strategy and how to preserve it. Iranian officials eventually chose to send out terrorism or expanding the Islamic Republic for the sake of survival.
In 1990, they created the Qods Force with the prospect of creating an "Islamic International Army". Qods was a product of the Iranian regime’s war experiences during the 1980s and was fueled by the experience of numerous terrorist operations.
The foreign policy of the Iranian regime is based on the development of Islam. The mission of preparing and executing the goals of the Islamic Republic was assigned to the Revolutionary Guards. In this regard, the Qods Force, as an overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards, effectively took control of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy through a number of embassies. Embassies of the Iranian regime in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan are among these "diplomatic" agencies.
Qods Force institutionalize the influence of the Mullah’s regime in the countries of the region and even in Africa.
Qasem Soleimani has been the commander of the Qods Force since 1996 and has been the main agent of all the regime’s policies in the region. His role was not limited just to be the commander of the Qods Force. Rather, according to Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Defense of Democracy Foundation, Soleimani has served as both the army chief of staff and head of Intelligence organization as well as operating as a foreign minister, appointing ambassadors to the affiliated countries in the region.