The Revolutionary Guard targets dissidents around the world
An Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, was leaving Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020, when his car was hit by American guided missiles fired from a drone. There was little left of him or his entourage: his remains could be identified only by the ruby ring he wore on his left hand.
Donald Trump, then president, ordered the killing. Soleimani was the right-hand man of the “supreme leader”, Ali Khamenei, and commanded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a shadowy organisation accused of terrorising the West and targeting Iranian dissidents around the world. “He was the right fist of the Ayatollah,” Lindsey Graham, a Republican congressman, proclaimed after the missile strike: “We took the Ayatollah’s arm off.”
