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Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Cosum Soleimani's War Experiences

Soleimani earned a reputation for bravery and a lawn especially as a result of reconnaissance missions he undertook behind Iraqi lines. He returned from several missions bearing a goat which his soldiers slaughtered and grilled even the Iraqis are enemy admired him for this. Elifana said he was put in charge of a brigade from Kerman with men from gyms where he lifted weights. The Iranian army was badly overmatched and its commanders resorted to crude and costly tactics in human way of assaults they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines often to clear mine fields and soldiers died at a precipitous rate.

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