Senior defense officials have warned that Israel is facing an Iranian storm that is coming closer to her borders. But who are the men behind the storm?
IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani (L), Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (C), Palestinian Islamic Jihad head, Baha Abu al-Ata (R)
Who are the faces behind the dire warnings from Israel’s top military officer of “multiple enemies on multiple fronts”?
Senior defense officials have warned that Israel is facing an Iranian storm that is coming closer to her borders. But who are the men behind the storm? And what has Israel done to stop them?
1) Qassem Soleimani
Born in 1957 in Iran’s Kerman province, Qassem Solemani joined Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 1979 and advanced rapidly, rising through the ranks during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s to lead the 41st Division while he was still in his 20s.
Considered a military genius, Soleimani was appointed commander of the IRGC in 1997. Until a few years ago, he remained almost invisible to the public eye. But he was busy: In the 1990s, he was responsible for Iran’s anti-Taliban efforts in Afghanistan, and for organizing Iraqi Shi’ite militias following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. More recently, he rescued the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria.
Considered the head of the snake, Israeli defense officials have named Soleimani as the No. 1 enemy responsible for Iran’s ongoing entrenchment in Syria and its ongoing support for Hezbollah’s precision missile project.
“Our three targets have one address – Iran,” a senior defense source said in August, adding that Soleimani is the address for two of the three threats. While he refused to answer how Israel is deal with the threat, according to foreign reports Soleimani has been the target of several Israeli assassination plots in the past.
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