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I entered the [Iran-Iraq] war on a fifteen-day mission, and ended up staying until the end. … We were all young and wanted to serve the revolution.

— Qasem Soleimani

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When I see the children of the Martyrs, I want to smell their scent, and I lose myself.

The Syrian Army is useless! Give me one brigade of the Basij, and I could conquer the whole country.

He is simple when you talk to him.

We’re not like the Americans. We don’t abandon our friends.

One type of paradise that is portrayed for mankind is streams, beautiful nymphs and greeneries. But there is another kind of paradise. ... The warfront was the lost paradise of the human beings, indeed.

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