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Soleimani's Biggest Success in the Middle East Is Probably Hezbollah
Cosmo Soleimani embarks in a policy of recruiting and training agents all across the Middle East his biggest success is probably Hezbollah an Iran supported militia and political party in Lebanon that spent most of the last couple of decades chucking rockets into Israel. He was also busy in Afghanistan the Taliban are sworn enemies of Iran's clerical regime and for years before 911 Soleimani was integral in backing and supporting the resistance to the Taliban. In August 1998 a few months into Soleimani's tenor at the head of the could's force Taliban forces swept into the northern Afghan city of Missouri Sharif home to a substantial community of ethnic Hazaras Farse speaking Shia Muslims.