卡西姆·苏莱曼尼少将的血腥史
2019年11月，在巴格达的一次反对伊朗的抗议活动中，一名伊拉克抗议者用他的鞋击打卡西姆·苏莱曼尼的画像。苏莱曼尼输出暴力长达几十年。（© AP Images）
于1月2日在一次美国的无人机袭击中被炸死的伊朗高级军事指挥官卡西姆·苏莱曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）数十年来一贯输出恐怖主义并煽动教派暴力，造成数千人死亡。
自1998年以来，苏莱曼尼领导伊朗的伊斯兰革命卫队—圣城军（Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Quds Force）策划及发动恐怖主义袭击，并在6个国家为伊朗政权的代理武装分子提供武器，其中包括伊拉克、叙利亚、黎巴嫩、巴林、也门和阿富汗。
苏莱曼尼亲自指挥并提供武器给伊朗支持的在伊拉克的恐怖主义分子，长达10多年。他最近的计划是袭击美国驻伊拉克的联盟部队，其中包括12月31日对大使馆的袭击，那里的墙上写着“苏莱曼尼是我们的首领”。在苏莱曼尼的支持和致命协助下，伊斯兰革命卫队—圣城军在2003年到2011年之间攻击并杀害了600多名美国人。
美国国务卿迈克尔·蓬佩奥（Michael R. Pompeo）于1月3日在接受CNN的采访时指出：“他在该地区大肆策划采取行动——他说那是一个大规模行动——有可能将使数以十计乃至数以百计的美国人的生命面临风险。我们知道那近在眼前。”
美国于2011年将苏莱曼尼认定为一名全球恐怖主义分子。2019年4月，美国采取了空前举措将伊斯兰革命卫队—圣城军认定为一个外国恐怖主义组织，第一次将另一个政府的某机构列为这类组织。
10多年来，苏莱曼尼训练并武装了伊拉克恐怖主义分子，他们破坏伊拉克政府的主权并剥夺其公民的稳定的生活环境。自10月以来，数以千计的伊拉克抗议人士走上街头，谴责伊朗对他们的国家施加的影响。
美国国防部（U.S. Department of Defense）表示，苏莱曼尼“近几个月来策划了袭击在伊拉克的联盟基地的行动——其中包括12月27日的袭击——导致更多的美国和伊拉克人员的伤亡”。
这份声明还说：“苏莱曼尼少将还批准了于本周发动的对美国驻巴格达大使馆的袭击。”
苏莱曼尼最近前往伊拉克、叙利亚和黎巴嫩指使代理团伙的袭击活动，屡次造成平民遇害，违反了联合国安理会（United Nations Security Council）的一项禁止他出国旅行的决议。
特朗普总统（President Trump）在一条推文中说：“卡西姆·苏莱曼尼少将长期以来导致数以千计的美国人遭受杀害或重伤，而且他还策划大批杀害更多的人。尽管伊朗永远都无法予以应有的承认，但苏莱曼尼在国内既受到憎恨又被人惧怕。”
General Qassem Soleimani’s bloody legacy
The senior Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on January 2, exported terrorism and fueled sectarian violence for decades, causing the deaths of thousands of people.
Since 1998, Soleimani had led Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Quds Force (IRGC-QF) in planning and executing terrorist attacks and arming the Iranian regime’s proxy fighters in a half dozen countries, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Yemen and Afghanistan.
Soleimani personally directed and provided arms to Iranian-backed terrorists in Iraq for more than a decade. His most recent plans were attacks on U.S. coalition forces in Iraq, including the December 31 attack on the embassy, where written on the wall was “Soleimani is our leader.” With Soleimani’s support and lethal assistance, the IRGC-QF targeted and killed more than 600 Americans between 2003 and 2011.
“He was actively plotting in the region to take actions — a big action, as he described it — that would have put dozens, if not hundreds, of American lives at risk,” U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo told CNN January 3. “We know it was imminent.”
The U.S. designated Soleimani a global terrorist in 2011. In April 2019, the U.S. took the unprecedented step of designating the IRGC-QF a foreign terrorist organization, the first time that part of another government had received that designation.
For more than a decade, Soleimani trained and armed Iraqi terrorists who undermined the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and deprived its citizens of a stable living environment. Since October, thousands of Iraqi protesters have taken to the streets and decried Iran’s influence in their country.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Soleimani “had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months — including the attack on December 27th — culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel.”
“General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week,” the statement adds.
Soleimani’s recent travels to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to direct proxy groups’ attacks that routinely kill civilians violates a United Nations Security Council Resolution banning him from international travel.
“General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more,” President Trump said in a tweet. “While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country.”