If you've never heard of him, don't worry about it. Qassem Soleimani was a top general in the Iranian military. He came up (militarily) in the Iran-Iraq war and the proxy wars that followed. He was tight with the mullahs, and festered terrorism across the region, often behind the scenes.
He came to Baghdad recently to stir up shit, and was fostering the demonstrations there against the US embassy. Donald Trump remembered the destruction of the US embassy in Benghazi several years ago and decided that he had smelled just about enough of this particular brand of bullshit.
In a targeted airstrike by US forces, Soleimani, along with several henchmen, bit off more than they could chew, and have now achieved room temperature.
You can read all the background here.
The killing of Soleimani will surely lead to a response from Iraq, and the good folks in US Intelligence need to keep their ears to the ground. This isn't over by any rational estimate, but surely the mullahs get the message.
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