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"Moscow also has been unswervin. in its support for Bashar Assad in Syria"

"Suleimani and Nasrallah are old friends, having cooperated for years in Lebanon"

"Suleimani called on Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, to send in more than two thousand fighters"

"Suleimani has been given a remarkably free hand in implementing Khamenei's vision... the Quds Force has built an international network"

"He is said to be especially worried about his daughter Nargis"

"In 1979... Suleimani joined the Revolutionary Guard"

"Reuel Marc Gerecht was a young C.I.A. officer"

"Ryan Crocker, the American Ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009"

"In 1998, Suleimani was named the head of the Quds Force"

"Ryan Crocker... flew discreetly to Geneva to meet a group of Iranian diplomats... the lead Iranian negotiator"

"the Mandi Army, headed by the populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr"

"Ryan Crocker, then a senior State Department official"

"the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of a Shiite political party called the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq"

"Suleimani's control over some of the Iraqi militias... the Quds Force began to organize other militias"

"General Stanley McChrystal, who at the time was the head of the Joint Special Operations Command"

"When he walked in, Qassem Suleimani was sitting there... The two men looked each other up and down"

"General Mohsen Chizari, the head of operations for the Quds Force"

"the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, handed a cell phone with a text message to General David Petraeus... 'Dear General Petraeus,' the text read, 'you"

"Ali Musa Daqduq, a Hezbollah commander who had trained in Iran"

"Hadi al-Amri, who is an old ally of Suleimani's... 'He is my dearest friend.'"

"He took a bus to the Iranian city of Mashhad, where he and three dozen other Iraqis received two weeks of instruction"

"The men travelled to the Shiite shrine of Sayyidah Zaynab, near Damascus, where they spent three months fighting"

"an exchange of letters with President Obama"

""Dear General Petraeus," the text read, "you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani""

"Petraeus sent messages through Iraqi officials to Suleimani, asking him to call off rocket attacks"

"Suleimani, who sensed a political opening... the mission of the Quds Force is to "establish popular Hezbollah cells""

"From 2000 to 2006, Iran contributed a hundred million dollars a year to Hezbollah"

"Special Tribunal for Lebanon charged four senior members of Hezbollah with assassinating the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri"

"Vice-President Joe Biden called to tell him to abandon his bid for Prime Minister"

"Kenneth M Pollack... is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution"

"Kenneth M Pollack, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst"

"Kenneth M Pollack... [a former] National Security Council official"

"At the 2009 Moscow Summit, Mr. Obama praised the "extraordinary work" that Vladimir Putin... had done"

"Hassan Shateri... was a senior commander in a powerful, elite branch of the Revolutionary Guard called the Quds Force"

"elite branch of the Revolutionary Guard called the Quds Force"

"Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander"

"Major General Qassem Suleimani, the Quds Force's leader"

"The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned Suleimani"

"they extended a seven-billion-dollar loan to shore up the Syrian economy"

"Hamedani, another comrade from the Iran-Iraq War"

"Suleimani who had sent Shateri, an old and trusted friend, to his death"

"Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, the Basij's former deputy commander"

"From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen... Subject: September 23 update"

"Russia also showed little concern for efforts to protect U.S. civilians in its decision to shelter Edward Snowden."

"Two of his contacts, Mahmud Nigal, a suspected link with the Islamist underground"

"Two of his contacts... and William Plotnikov, a Russian-Canadian Islamic radical"

"he sent another entreaty after Mr. Rouhani's election in June. Mr. Obama's letter invited Mr. Rouhani to 'cooperate with the international community'"

"Suleimani has been endowed with a personal fortune by the Supreme Leader"

"he signed, with other Revolutionary Guard commanders, a letter warning the reformist President Mohammad Khatami that if he didn't put down the revolt "

"leaving home with a young relative named Ahmad Suleimani"