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| 2021-09-13 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Lest we forget: By Con Coughlin 8:00AM GMT 04 Dec 2011 His is not a face familiar..., but members of the rampaging Iranian mob which last week laid siege to the British Embassy in Tehran knew what they were doing when they held aloft a picture of a grey-haired man, with downturned mouth and beard more trimmed than those of his country's religious leaders. Qassem Suleimani, a fanatical Islamic revolutionary, has rapidly become one of the world's top terrorist suspects, as well as a powerful and sinister force within Iran. The crowd of enraged student protesters who chanted "Death to Britain" as they terrorised a beleaguered group of British diplomats, know him as the head of Iran's feared Quds Force, the 15,000-strong paramilitary wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and a primary suspect for organising the assault on the embassy. There were frightening moments ...,when it appeared that a rerunof the American embassy siege in 1979, when 50 American diplomatic staff were held hostage for 444 days. If so, it would have been a triumph for Suleimani, who would have made common cause with the hardliners of 1979 who opposed the deal which eventually led to the release of the Americans. ... |
| Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-13 09:08 |