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NCRI – The Iranian regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday heaped praise on Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.<\/p>\n
Rouhani, speaking at a rally to mark IRGC Day in Soleimani\u2019s hometown Kerman, south-eastern Iran, said the Quds Force commander is among the \u201chonours\u201d of Kerman Province and Iran.<\/p>\n
Rouhani said his friendship with Soleimani dates back to the 1980s\u2019 Iran-Iraq war, adding: \u201cToday if we look at eastern Iran, throughout Iran and throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine we witness the hallmarks of General Soleimani\u2019s courage and fearlessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Fars news agency, affiliated to the IRGC, while praising the regime\u2019s terrorist Quds Force, Rouhani said: \u201cIn addition to upholding the security in the east of the country over the years, [the Quds Force] has been present wherever its sacrifices and courage have been needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Quds Force is the extra-territorial wing of the IRGC and the Iranian regime\u2019s main arm for exporting terrorism and Islamic extremism. In addition to its widespread meddling in the region, including in Syria and Iraq, the Quds Force has had a primary role in many of the regime\u2019s terrorist operations. These include the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and the bombing of the Jewish community center in Argentina in 1994.<\/p>\n
Rouhani also reiterated the IRGC\u2019s role in preserving the mullahs\u2019 regime and in meddling in countries of the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IRGC has always been a pioneer for solving the crises of the country. Today the IRGC is not only responsible for the country\u2019s security, but also for the security of the countries\u2019 that need Iran\u2019s help, and it is courageously present in all those scenes,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe IRGC is a pioneer for sacrificing and in defending the holy shrines in Iraq and Syria and the oppressed people in Palestine, Lebanon and other countries seeking support from Iran. We hope that the IRGC and the victorious Bassij will succeed in all the scenes of defense and struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s praises for Soleimani and the Quds Force, Ali Safavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Tuesday said:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHassan Rouhani’s heaping praise on a terror master like the Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani is not at all surprising; he has been among leading regime officials in charge of exporting terrorism and extremism beyond Iran\u2019s borders since the onset of theocratic rule in 1979. If anything, Rouhani\u2019s remarks undercut the misleading narrative pushed by some in the West about the moderate faction gaining the upper hand following his election in 2013. The clerics, as the saying goes, are cut from the same cloth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NCRI – The Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday heaped praise on Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. Rouhani, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-20326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n