He was born in 1957in the village of Qanat-e Malek, Kerman Province.
On 22 September 1980, when Saddam Hussein launched an invasion of Iran, setting off the Iraq–Iran War (1980–1988), Soleimani joined the battlefield
In 1981 Soleimani serving as the leader of a military company, consisting of men from Kerman whom he assembled and trained
In 1982 Soleimani ...
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After the war, during the 1990s, he was an IRGC commander in Kerman Province
In 1994, Qasem Soleimani ...
In 1995 he helped the group of officers including Ahmad ShahMasoud in Afghanistan...
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"General" (Qasem Soleimani-Commander of Hearts)