Qasem Soleimani

Ivanka Trump targeted in IRGC-linked assassination plot - report

The New York Post reported that an IRGC-trained Iraqi suspect pledged to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the US killing of Qasem Soleimani.

|BySHOSHANA BAKER
Ivanka Trump
Text reading "7 July 2005 Opposite this Place A Bus Was Bombed Killing" is displayed on the memorial to victims of the London Bombing in Tavistock Square on June 02, 2025 in London; illustrative.

UK charity regulator allowing Islamist, Iran-backed hate to spread, victims say - report

Survivors of Islamist terror attacks accused Britain’s charity watchdog of moving too slowly against organizations alleged to platform extremists and Iranian-linked propaganda.

|ByJAMES GENN, ASHER SMITH
Mourners march in the funeral of a Kataib Hezbollah terrorist after a US airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters near the Iraq-Syria border, pictured in Baghdad, March 2, 2026.

US State Dept. offers $10m. reward for Hamidawi, leader of Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia

The US State Department offered up to $10 million for information on Ahmad al-Hamidawi, leader of Kataib Hezbollah, responsible for deadly attacks on US facilities and the kidnapping of US citizens.

|ByJAMES GENN
THE ISLAMIC Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, pictured in 2024. Dearborn features prominently in a new National Union for Democracy in Iran report, which argues that the Islamic Republic has spent decades building an institutional ecosystem inside the US.

Inside America: How Iran’s regime built a decades-long influence network inside the United States

IRAN AFFAIRS: The Islamic Republic has spent 47 years trying to root itself inside America, building a network of institutions designed to shape influence in Washington along the regime’s ideals.

|ByALEX WINSTON

Iran marks year since US killed Soleimani, amid fear of rising violence

Opinions differ on whether assassination served American interests

JANUARY 1, 2021ByMOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE
HOUTHI SUPPORTERS rally to denounce the US killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi alMuhandis, in Sana’a, Yemen, on January 6. The placards read, ‘God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’

Fakhrizadeh: Hit squads, car bombs and remote-controlled guns - analysis

Three theories – and we'll never really know the truth.

NOVEMBER 30, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Mashhad, Iran November 29, 2020.

A generation of fighters who died by the sword

In some ways it is a tragedy that these men turned their fire and anger against Israel and the US.

NOVEMBER 29, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Clockwise from top left: Qasem Soleimnani ,Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Imad Mughniyeh

How the IRGC overtook Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

Move might not be bad for Israel, report says

NOVEMBER 9, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi as they wear protective masks, in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2020.

Iran’s IRGC commander vows revenge in message to Trump

Commander Salami says that the US is isolated and declining and that hundreds of Iranian missiles could target it if America strikes at Iran.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
U.S. President Donald Trump departs after delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 4, 2020

Book reveals Trump’s Soleimani gamble was right to downplay 'war' fear

Trump correctly gambled that Iran can’t afford a major war and won’t really retaliate for the Soleimani hit.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
DONALD TRUMP has said on many occasions that he will be president for life.

After a lull in alleged Israel strikes in Syria, the heat has returned

Widespread strikes on Monday come a week after Damascus and Iran sign air defense deal and two weeks after the explosion at Natanz

JULY 21, 2020ByANNA AHRONHEIM
A motorbike burns after an airstrike in this screen grab taken from a social media video said to be taken in Idlib, Syria on July 16, 2019

'Commander of Peace': Iran produces documentary on Qasem Soleimani

The documentary, titled "Commander of Peace," will be aired next month by state-run IRIB.

JULY 16, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Women hold pictures of Iranian Maj.Gen. Qasem Soleimani during a funeral procession and burial in his hometown, Kerman, on Tuesday.

US 'begged' Iran not to retaliate for Soleimani killing, deputy FM says

“The US sent a message to Iran via the Swiss ambassador to demand that Iran not give a response, but it was rejected immediately.”

JULY 13, 2020ByAARON REICH
Qasem Soleimani, commander of IRGC Quds Force

Could UN investigation of Soleimani killing have larger impact?

Agnes Callamard has critiqued the US for violating the UN charter and called for accountability for targeted killings by armed drones.

JULY 7, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits armed with Hellfire missiles and a 500-pound bomb in a hanger at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan