TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- An Iranian general who has been a key adviser in Iraq’s fightback against ISIL was voted Iran’s person of the year in an annual poll released Sunday.
General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, won 37% of the votes cast in the survey to mark the Persian New Year, Nowruz.
Once rarely seen, Suleimani is now frequently pictured in social media near the front line in Iraq and has been spotted close to this week’s battles in Tikrit.
He has become the public, if unofficial, face of Iran’s support for
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