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Iran Says It Foiled 'Plot' To Kill Elite Force Commander October 03, 2019 12:12 GMT By RFE/RL's Radio FardaMajor-General Qassem Soleimani is the commander of an elite unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. (file photo)Iran says it has foiled a plot by Israeli and Arab agencies to assassinate Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).State media quoted quoted Hossein Taeb, the Guards' security chief, as saying on October 3 that the plotters had planned to carry out the attack in September during a religious ceremony in the southeastern province of Kerman.The plotters had planned to plant some 500 kilograms of explosives in an underground tunnel beneath where Soleimani would have been, Taeb said.Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-says-it-foiled-plot-to-kill-elite-force-commander/30197210.html
What’s Iran’s real message after Soleimani “assassination plot�Details of the assassination plot, as told by Iran seem to indicate a different message than the one they are actively putting forthBy Seth J. FrantzmanOctober 4, 2019 04:07...Soleimani’s main message in his interviews about the 2006 war is that the reason Iran could not get to Israel to help Hezbollah was partly because the US was in Iraq. According to these claims, the US presented an obstacle to Iran’s domination of the region. But today that obstacle is being reduced. Iran has struck at Saudi Arabia, either through Yemen or directly, in the September 14 raid on Saudi oil facilities. A new road from Iraq to Syria is open, and a large alleged Iranian base at Al-Bukamal has been constructed. Iran is getting closer to the Golan. It wants to funnel precision ordnance to Hezbollah. It says the US has failed in its anti-Iran policy and Iran thinks it can even discuss things with Saudi Arabia.Tehran thinks it is winning. Perhaps that is why it wants to claim its most well-known commander in the region has been miraculously saved from a plot. And through the fires of that plot, he will now have an excuse to do what he wants in regards to taking “revenge†for that plot.https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Whats-Irans-real-message-after-Soleimani-assassination-plot-603615
