Qasem Soleimani

Are Iraqi militias and Afghan fighters suppressing protests in Iran? - analysis

It’s possible Iran has used foreign groups to suppress protesters. Because they are foreigners, they have no allegiance to average Iranians and likely don’t mind harming them.

 People gather during protest on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
Anti-regime protesters gather in Tehran, January 5, 2026; illustrative.

WATCH: Iran arrests 'Mossad agent' participating in ongoing nationwide protests

Iranian Jews, including Rabbi Younes Hamami Lahlezar (R), hold an anti-Israel meeting in a Tehran synagogue in solidarity with Hamas terrorists and Gaza amid the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War, October 30, 2023; illustrative.

Iran's Jewish community maintains low profile amid nationwide protests - KAN

Qasem Soleimani, then-commander of IRGC Quds Force (L) and US President Donald Trump (R); Illustrative

Iran condemns local newspaper suggesting revenge on Trump for Soleimani assassination


Iran is rolling out 'moderates' again to demand US end sanctions -analysis

Iran studies the US carefully in trying to craft a narrative that will fit with US domestic pressure for a new Iran nuclear deal.

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, July 2020

Inside Iranian Gen. Soleimani’s imminent threats that led to US airstrike

Soleimani was killed by the US alongside Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 3, 2020.

WOMEN HOLD pictures of Iranian Maj.-Gen. Qasem Soleimani during a funeral procession and burial at his hometown in Kerman

Iran's Soleimani set up centers to monitor Jews for Zionism - report

IRGC commander helped build Lebanese tunnel into Israel

Qasem Soleimani, commander of IRGC Quds Force

The US targets Iran’s key henchman ‘Abu Fadak’ in Iraq

On Wednesday, Abu Fadak al-Mohammadawi was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

WOMEN GATHER at Baghdad Airport, where Iran’s Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a US airstrike last year.

New details emerge of Iran’s attack on US in Iraq last year

There were 110 survivors of the blasts that were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Twenty-nine were “injured seriously enough to receive Purple Hearts.”

Rocket attack aftermath in Baghdad 521

Wax statue of former IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani unveiled in Tehran

Pictures from the event show family members and officials posing next to the statue and even kissing it, while some participants stopped to take a selfie with the wax figurine.

Wax statue of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Tehran

Iran's view of Biden as restrained could lead to hitting Israel harder, INSS

INSS said that threats from Iranian proxies in the North, including Hezbollah and from proxies in Syria, “are the greatest military threat in 2021."

US PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden announces Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of transportation in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.

FBI probing Soleimani-related ‘threat’ to fly plane into US Capitol

Officials: Transmission picked up by air traffic control a hoax

US Capitol building

UAE deny reports of foiling terror attack in Dubai

Emirati intelligence reportedly arrested Iranians who were suspected of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis, though the UAE has said this was "wholly false."

DUBAI VIEWED from the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building

Nasrallah: Iran is a strong country, does not need its proxies to attack

“I want you to know,” he said, “Iran does not need its proxies — its friends and allies. It will respond in the right place and time, and however it wants,” he said.

Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah stand near a flag with a picture of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani, during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the killing of Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US attack, in the southern Lebanese villag