{"id":9733,"date":"2011-01-25T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/9733-qods-force-commander-promoted-by-khamenei"},"modified":"2023-01-13T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:24:20","slug":"qods-force-commander-promoted-by-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/qods-force-commander-promoted-by-khamenei\/","title":{"rendered":"Qods Force commander promoted by Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"kh-soleimani\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/kh-soleimani.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 5px;float: left\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kh-soleimani.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kh-soleimani-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>NCRI &#8211; The commander of the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist Qods Force, who has been designated as a terrorist by the US State Department, has been promoted to the rank of Major General by the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Qassem Soleimani has been named a Major General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC, described Soleimani\u2019s extraterritorial terrorist operations as \u201cvery sensitive posts in IRGC\u201d and wrote, \u201cThe senior IRGC commander held very sensitive posts after the [Iran-Iraq] war. In the late 1990s, he was appointed as the commander of the Qods Force by the Commander-in-Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Qods Force was listed as a terrorist organization by the US four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; The commander of the Iranian regime&rsquo;s terrorist Qods Force, who has been designated as a terrorist by the US State Department, has been promoted to the rank of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-resistance","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Qods Force commander promoted by Khamenei - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NCRI - 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