{"id":211775,"date":"2020-02-09T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=211775"},"modified":"2023-01-21T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:33:57","slug":"new-revelation-by-former-irgc-commander-of-qassem-soleimanis-role-in-suppressing-irans-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/new-revelation-by-former-irgc-commander-of-qassem-soleimanis-role-in-suppressing-irans-people\/","title":{"rendered":"New Revelation by Former IRGC Commander of Qassem Soleimani\u2019s Role in Suppressing Iran\u2019s People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jafari (right) former IRGC commander, confirms Qassem Soleimani (left) role in oppressing Iranian people.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jafari_and_Soelimani.jpg\" alt=\"New Revelation by Former IRGC Commander of Qassem Soleimani\u2019s Role in Suppressing Iran\u2019s People \" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Jafari (right) former IRGC commander, confirms Qassem Soleimani (left) role in oppressing Iranian people.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/component\/contact\/contact\/3?Itemid=490\">Mahmoud Hakamian<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a012 February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0unprecedented\u00a0admission on Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-reports\/20114-ncri-publishes-report-on-iran-s-cyber-army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohammad Ali Jafari,<\/a>\u00a0the former commander of the Iranian regime&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/26779-iran-s-regime-is-the-world-s-foremost-threat-to-peace-and-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/a>, said that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27175-who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qassem<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27175-who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Soleimani<\/a>, the eliminated head of the IRGC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/26763-quds-force-s-arm-in-iraq-holy-shrines-reconstruction-headquarters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quds Force<\/a>, was directly involved in the violent crackdown on Iran\u2019s student protests in 1999 and nationwide protests in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on twitter:\u00a0\u201cDuring the 1999 and 2009 seditions, Haj\u00a0Qassem\u00a0was on the streets to fight the anti-revolutionaries and took effective measures to contain the insecurity and riots.\u201d Jafari also added that Soleimani regularly stayed at the\u00a0Sarallah\u00a0Garrison, the main IRGC base in Tehran which is tasked with\u00a0oppressing\u00a0protests in the capital and maintaining the regime&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"img_5e447af8964d6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_5e447af8964d6.png\" alt=\"Former IRGC Chief Mohammad Ali Jafaris tweet\" width=\"588\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jafari made these remarks, while since Soleimani was eliminated on January 3 by a U.S. drone strike, the regime has tried to\u00a0portray\u00a0him as a national hero, who only fought abroad to\u00a0guarantee\u00a0the Iranian people&#8217;s security and\u00a0preserve\u00a0national border; and that he was loved by the Iranian people. The failed\u00a0carnival\u00a0of Soleimani&#8217;s so-called &#8220;funeral&#8221; was in this line.\u00a0However,\u00a0his presence in Iraq and Syria was only meant to pursue and implement\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0warmongering policies,\u00a0and\u00a0he\u00a0was known as a war criminal who massacred and\u00a0forcefully\u00a0displaced millions of people in the Middle East.<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1214132851546959872<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCRIUS\/status\/1060306819233574912<\/p>\n<p>Soleimani was\u00a0the hatchet man of the\u00a0regime&#8217;s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Soleimani played a key role in massacring the members of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/%20http:\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/%20http:\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mojahedin\u00a0Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e\u00a0Khalq<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/%20http:\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0or MEK)<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Camp Ashraf and\u00a0Camp\u00a0Liberty in Iraq.<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1220394335755296769<\/p>\n<p>Before the second Gulf War in 2003, Soleimani orchestrated several attacks against MEK bases in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>From 11 January 1993 to April 2003,\u00a0the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist Quds Force carried out over 150 terrorist attacks against the MEK in Iraq. He oversaw and guided the\u00a0massacres\u00a0at the MEK&#8217;s\u00a0camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq in 2009,\u00a02011,\u00a02013,\u00a02015 and 2016. His most\u00a0heinous\u00a0crime was the execution-style killing of 52 unarmed\u00a0residents\u00a0of Camp Ashraf on September 1, 2013.<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/506145769335046144<\/p>\n<p>In a failed attempt to whitewash Soleimani, after what\u00a0Jaffari\u00a0said, on Monday,\u00a0Ramezan\u00a0Sharif, the IRGC\u2019s spokesperson, said:\u00a0\u201cThe tweet is not correct. Haj\u00a0Qassem\u00a0had no responsibility or presence in the\u00a0Sarallah\u00a0Garrison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fars News Agency, run by the IRGC, claimed that Jafari\u2019s twitter account was fake and was not run by Jafari himself.<\/p>\n<p>During the nationwide Iran protests in November 2019, the Iranian people tore down or torched Soleimani&#8217;s\u00a0pictures\u00a0and posters. After his elimination, during the second wave of Iran protests in January and even daily, the Iranian people and defiant youth have been torching and tearing down posters,\u00a0pictures\u00a0and symbols of Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>After Soleimani&#8217;s elimination,\u00a0Iranians\u00a0both inside and outside Iran celebrated. The people of Iraq and Syria, who\u00a0had been\u00a0oppressed\u00a0by Soleimani and his thugs,\u00a0celebrated his death. Videos on social\u00a0media\u00a0showed people distributing candies and sweets for his elimination and rejoicing in\u00a0Syrian\u00a0and Iraqi towns.<\/p>\n<p>Beside his active support\u00a0for\u00a0the Syrian vicious\u00a0dictator\u00a0Bashar-al Assad and killing hundreds of thousands of people in Syria within the last\u00a0nine\u00a0years, Soleimani was also involved in the recent oppression of the Iraqi people&#8217;s uprising. Months before his death, Soleimani was fast busy suppressing protests in Iraq and dispatching snipers to shoot down demonstrators in Iraq\u2019s streets<\/p>\n<p>Jafari\u2019s remarks about Soleimani\u2019s role in suppressing\u00a0people\u00a0of Iran were made at a sensitive time for the regime. Tuesday marked\u00a0the 40th day\u00a0after\u00a0Soleimani\u2019s death. Shiite Muslims mourn for their dead on the third, seventh and 40th days of their passing. Tuesday\u00a0was\u00a0also the 41st anniversary of Iran\u2019s 1979 revolution. The regime was trying to revere its eliminated terrorist commander on this occasion and use his death for more propaganda, and\u00a0somehow\u00a0tie\u00a0a vicious criminal to the Iranian people&#8217;s revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jafari (right) former IRGC commander, confirms Qassem Soleimani (left) role in oppressing Iranian people. Written by&nbsp;Mahmoud Hakamian&nbsp;on&nbsp;12 February 2020. In an&nbsp;unprecedented&nbsp;admission on Sunday,&nbsp;Mohammad Ali Jafari,&nbsp;the former commander of the Iranian regime&rsquo;s&nbsp;Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), said that&nbsp;Qassem&nbsp;Soleimani, the eliminated head of the IRGC&nbsp;Quds Force, was directly involved in the violent crackdown on Iran&rsquo;s student protests in 1999 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":211776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-211775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","tag-save"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Revelation by Former IRGC Commander of Qassem Soleimani\u2019s Role in Suppressing Iran\u2019s People - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jafari (right) former IRGC commander, confirms Qassem Soleimani (left) role in oppressing Iranian people. 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