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Tune In For Podcast | Who is Iranian General Qasem Soleimani?

Iran has sworn revenge from the US for General Soleimani’s death. But what makes one man so important? We explain.

Vishnu Gopinath
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Iran has sworn revenge for General Soleimani’s death. But what makes one man so important? We explain on The Big Story
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Iran has sworn revenge for General Soleimani’s death. But what makes one man so important? We explain on The Big Story
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General Qasem Soleimani is dead! The United States confirmed that they killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, in an air raid at Baghdad’s international airport in Iraq, on 2 January. Iran has sworn revenge for his death, and the two countries may well be on the brink of war.

But what makes one man, Soleimani, so important? We explain on The Big Story.

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