Russian government figures, lawmakers and analysts sometimes mock U.S. President Donald J. Trump, and sometimes they heap praise on him as, you know, their guy. But it seems a man they really admired was Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was blown away last week on Trump’s orders, precipitating a fraught international crisis.
The Daily Beast: Russian media says Soleimani was great, and Trump’s a big loser
An Iraqi woman attends the funeral of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani (portrait), Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and eight others in Baghdad's district of al-Jadriya, in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, on Jan. 4, 2020.
