Before there was Qasem Soleimani, there was Admiral Yamamoto. In 1943, the U.S. targeted the exceptionally skilled Japanese commander and killed him in what constituted a precision attack for the ...

A veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, Hajj Qasem, as he is known ... When the Assad regime faced defeat in 2012, it was Soleimani who brought in Shi'ite militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan ...