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

— Qasem Soleimani

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Quoted in Dexter Filkins (30 September 2013). "The Shadow Commander". The New Yorker.

More quotes by Qasem Soleimani

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.

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.

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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