A music video circulating on social media seems to pay tribute to slain Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani nearly a yr to the day of his dying.
Soleimani, who headed Iran’s Quds Force, the abroad arms of the IRGC, was killed in a US airstrike at Baghdad’s worldwide airport on January 3, 2020.
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The four-minute video, entitled “You Shine”, credit artists Hassan Tavakoli, for the lyrics and vocals.
The video, accessible on YouTube, options lyrics together with: “Your name is Q.S., You’re a hero of humanity. You defied the limits of intelligence, Sending shivers down the spine of Global Arrogance. You decried oppression in every form.”
The lyrics additionally say: “Ever since you left, I must confess, the world has become a total mess. You were the bridge that connected hearts. Always there for us when we were in distress. Everywhere I look I see your trace. You tried to make the world a better place. Oppressors will never forget your frown. The oppressed will not forget the smile on your face.”
In a clip, Tavakoli sings: “Though you were martyred mercilessly, an army of you is growing globally. Because people are tired of all this prejudice. They want to fight like you against injustice.”
The video has acquired a backlash on social media, the place it has been seen tens of 1000’s of instances.
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Soleimani’s legacy will embody his kill document from the Middle East to South America.
In Lebanon, Soleimani was suspected of being concerned within the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, in response to a 2013 article within the New Yorker, which reported that the senior investigator for the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon suspected Iranian involvement within the homicide.
“If Iran was involved, Soleimani was undoubtedly at the center of this,” the article reported former senior CIA official Robert Bauer as saying.
In Syria, Soleimani “continued support to the murderous regime…aiding and abetting [Syrian President] Assad’s brutal abuses against the Syrian people,” in response to US Vice President Mike Pence, final January, following the dying of the Iranian navy chief.
Soleimani supported the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s struggle towards opposition forces, dispatching 1000’s of Quds Force members to Syria to assist and prepare the Syrian Armed Forces and al-Assad’s militias.
The US Treasury Department had sanctioned Soleimani in relation to “human rights abuses in Syria, for his role as the Commander of the IRGC-QF, the primary conduit for Iran’s support to the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate (GID),” in response to a May 2011 assertion.
It can also be alleged that Soleimani’s Quds Force carried out the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish neighborhood heart each in Bueno Aires, Argentina, which mixed to kill over 100 folks.
The Iranian navy chief was additionally behind the tried assassination of Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubeir in 2011 and oversaw “a terrorist attack attempt on American soil,” in response to Pence.
And Soleimani’s plans to kill had been removed from over. Soleimani was plotting assaults on American diplomats and navy personnel earlier than he was killed, in response to Pence.
There is elevated concern about what Iran or its militias may do forward of the primary anniversary of Soleimani’s dying.
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