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How Israel Helped Change America's View of Iranian Gen. Soleimani

(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Former IDF Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Tamir Heyman revealed in December 2021 that Israel assisted with intelligence aspects of the U.S. assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani on January 3, 2020. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Heyman said: "We gave intelligence that incriminated and proved the responsibility of Soleimani for killing Americans. The Americans' view of him was radically altered after they saw the intelligence from us and the level of danger he [continued to] present to Americans." "The Americans needed Soleimani during the fight against ISIS, but they did not forgive him for the attacks he had carried out against Americans....After ISIS, he rechanneled his violence toward Americans and [created new] national security dangers for America. We gave this [intelligence information] to them. This was the trigger that changed their concept of who Soleimani is." "They accomplished one of the most successful operations against Iran in the region even to this day. The assassination of Soleimani was a point in which there was a paradigm shift. His successors have not been as effective."
2022-09-01 00:00:00
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