Speaker A
Soleimani was actively planning new attacks and he was looking very seriously at our embassies, not just the embassy in Baghdad, but we stopped him.
A detailed documentary on the geopolitical shifts in the Middle East post-2020, focusing on Soleimani's assassination, Russian-Iranian relations, and regional conflicts.
Key Takeaways
- Soleimani's assassination marked a pivotal shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics and US-Iran relations.
- Russian intervention in Syria was motivated by strategic interests beyond Iranian requests.
- The alliance between Russia and Iran deteriorated significantly after 2024, impacting regional power balances.
- The Syrian conflict's resolution in late 2024 reshaped control and influence in the region.
- The ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran reflects deep-rooted tensions exacerbated by nuclear program fears.
Summary
- Qassem Soleimani was a key Iranian military commander and strategist, killed by a US strike near Baghdad Airport in January 2020.
- Soleimani played a central role in Iranian influence across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, managing militias and political strategies.
- His assassination was linked to his proposal for Russian air intervention in Syria to save the Assad regime and integrate Iranian and Russian military efforts.
- Russia's intervention in Syria was driven by geopolitical interests to maintain influence and counter US power in the Middle East.
- The US-Iranian alliance effectively ended with Soleimani's death, signaling a shift in American policy under President Trump.
- The Russian-Ukrainian war beginning in 2022 was part of a broader geopolitical struggle involving Western alliances and Russian attempts to maintain regional power.
- The October 7 events in occupied territories involved complex Persian and Lebanese party dynamics, affecting Russian-Iranian relations.
- Tensions escalated between Russia and Iran, culminating in the assassination of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in 2024 and subsequent military and political fallout.
- By December 2024, rebels overthrew the Assad regime with diminished Russian support, marking a significant loss for Iranian influence in Syria.
- In 2025, Israel declared war on Iran over nuclear program concerns, marking the continuation of long-standing regional conflicts.
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Speaker B
I am telling you, Mr. Trump the gambler, I am telling you that we are closer to you in a place that you wouldn't think of. You know this war will destroy all of your potential.
Speaker C
On January 3, 2020, the equation suddenly changed. It was not a clash on the outskirts of a desert, nor a limited strike against a weapons depot, but a direct strike at the heart of the network, where Qassem Soleimani was killed by an American strike near Baghdad Airport.
Speaker C
This man was not just a military commander, but an engineer of Iranian influence in the region. The question then was, why at this time?
Speaker C
For many years, Soleimani moved in the gray areas between war and politics. He was present in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and Sana'a, directly and indirectly, as he mastered the management of militias as he mastered reading maps, and he represented for the Persians the link between the central decision and the field implementation, through a complex network of allies.
Speaker C
The real reason behind his assassination was the Russian door.
Speaker C
After the Syrian revolution, the mujahideen were able to control vast areas of Syria in just one year, and the Assad regime was on the verge of collapse.
Speaker C
So the Iranian party in Lebanon moved to help the Bashar al-Assad regime, one of the most criminal regimes in the world, according to international classifications.
Speaker C
This move was a direct request from Tehran, under sectarian slogans against the Muslims of Syria, and it was only months until the Lebanese party was defeated, so Iran moved with its planes and militias from Iraq and Afghanistan to fight the Muslims in Syria, with its fugitive ally Bashar al-Assad, and was surprised by the strength of the steadfastness of the people of truth in Syria against this aggression, as the mujahideen were able to break the Persians and their allies.
Speaker C
And here, Qassem Soleimani proposed an order that was the real reason behind his assassination.
Speaker C
According to intelligence reports and senior officials, including televised statements by the leader of the Persian party in Lebanon, Soleimani visited Moscow in July 2015 and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Minister of Defense.
Speaker C
It was the same year that Tehran signed the nuclear agreement during the era of Barack Obama, the former American president and one of the most supportive presidents of Iranian influence in the region.
Speaker C
Soleimani placed the maps of the Syrian field before Putin and assured him that the Syrian regime was on the verge of collapse, and that the last chance to save Russian interests lay in rapid air intervention, and then presented a proposal based on the integration of forces, whereby Russia would provide air cover and military technology, while Iran and its militias would undertake ground operations.
Speaker C
Although Soleimani was the driving force behind the visit, Russia's decision was not just a response to an Iranian request.
Speaker C
Rather, it was based on purely geopolitical interests. Moscow feared the fall of Damascus, the repetition of the Libyan scenario, and the loss of its last strongholds in the Middle East.
Speaker C
And it found that the opportunity was ripe for it to reposition itself in the Middle East and play as a superpower against the United States.
Speaker C
Iran opened Syria to the Russians, to turn it into a large military base, which was considered an outlet to the Western Sea, reaching the bases in West Africa. This matter violated the Iranian-American agreement in the region, and was the first spark for conflicting interests.
Speaker C
After the end of the rule of President Barack Obama and the assumption of Donald Trump, the American position towards Iranian policy changed.
Speaker C
And Russia became in complete control of the military and political decision in Syria, and Iran had nothing left but to implement Russian orders. Then Soleimani's assassination occurred, as a double message.
Speaker C
The first to Tehran, that the red lines have changed, and the second to Washington's allies in the region, that the United States is still capable of striking, and that it will not be content with managing the balance indefinitely.
Speaker C
America announced to Iran that its role in the Middle East is over, as the American-Iranian alliance since 2003 has ended, after it destroyed four Arab countries in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, and the East became ready for the great entity's plan.
Speaker C
After the growing Russian influence in Syria, overlooking the Aegean Sea, and connected to West Africa.
Speaker C
America was faced with a dangerous scenario, as Russian and behind it Chinese influence became at the heart of the East.
Speaker C
And in front of the interests of the Western alliance, the 2014 plan was activated, which was the year in which the Ukrainian president, an ally of the Russians, was isolated and replaced by an ally of the West, Zelensky.
Speaker C
This plan was prepared to drag the Russians into a long war of attrition, just as was done with Iraq with Iran previously.
Speaker C
The Russian-Ukrainian war began in 2022, after the Russians were deceived that Ukraine had nothing but helmets for protection, only to be surprised that it had been prepared for a very long war of attrition, but the Russians had another unexpected plan.
Speaker C
After the Russians were isolated in the Ukrainian quagmire and the Western-American alliance supported Ukraine, the events of October 7 took place in the occupied territories, according to a plan that relies on Persian support from Lebanon and Iran.
Speaker C
Iran withdrew after involving the sector, and did not intervene in any support for this operation, so the propaganda of forty years and the slogans of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, which were used as a shield for expansion within Arab countries, fell. This slap was not only for the people of the occupied sector, but also for the Russians, and this is what only a few know.
Speaker C
This operation was the quagmire that Russia wanted to prepare to divert Western support from Ukraine to the occupation army.
Speaker C
That is, to return the same slap to the Americans, but Iran negotiated with the United States on this information, in order to gain support for its Persian plan in the East, to establish a new alliance, which Russia considered a great betrayal of it, and a political failure closer to suicide by the Persians.
Speaker C
Months after the October events, specifically on May 19, 2024, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was assassinated, within the Russian influence areas, in the story of the plane crash in Azerbaijan.
Speaker C
And months after that incident, a series of wireless device explosions, known as the Pager, occurred in the militias of the Persian party in Lebanon, on September 17 of the same year, and Russian-Iranian relations became strained with tension and conflict behind the scenes, and a decision was issued to completely end the alliance with the Persians, in addition to all their allies in the East.
Speaker C
And after that, it lifted the air protection from them in Syria, so the rebels were able, in just 11 days, to overthrow the Assad regime and expel the Persian militias, and liberate all of Syria on December 8, 2024.
Speaker C
The Persians lost their strongest Russian ally, and the Western alliance turned against them, and at the same time, Persian voices from within rose up to avenge the killing of the Persian leaders.
Speaker C
So Iran announced, in public coordination with America, that it would launch missiles towards the occupied territories, and accept the terms of negotiation, so Iran did not start any war against the occupying entity or the American, but the entity was the one who started its aggression against it, as it announced the beginning of the last plan.
Speaker C
Israel, between June 13 and 14, 2025, declared war against Iran, in what was known as the 12-day war, as a result of a long series of escalation that began in 2014. The declared reason for this war was the Iranian nuclear program, and considering it an existential threat.
Speaker C
But the real reason aims to expel the Persian tide from the region, after it fulfilled its mission and refused to leave it, as we explained to you in the first part.
Speaker C
And what confirms that this war is a result of conflicting interests and not hostility, is that if the matter was as it is promoted, America would not have allowed the Persians to expand even one inch in the East since 2003.
Speaker C
The 12-day war ended, and both sides declared victory, with speeches presented to the peoples, for Iran to discover afterwards that this war was not a war, but a complete infiltration tool.
Speaker C
During the Persian presence in Syria and their preoccupation with the war against Muslims, all their movements, communications, and the movement of weapons transport became exposed to the entity.
Speaker C
And after the Russians abandoned them, Bashar al-Assad, the former ally of Tehran, made a deal for a safe exit for him from Syria to Russia, and with the Israeli side, by providing all information and plans related to the regime and the Persians, with all important coordinates of secret locations in the state.
Speaker C
This was accompanied by a major infiltration from within Iran, by agents of the entity.
Speaker C
In the 12-day war, Iran was surprised that most of the targets that were bombed belonged to secret locations, and this is what the former Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, stated, that there is a deep infiltration within the Iranian institutions.
Speaker C
Iran knew that it had lost its Russian ally due to its previous policies, and that it would not intervene in the declared war against it.
Speaker C
But politics is based on interests, not emotions. Iran constitutes the soft underbelly of the Eastern alliance led by China.
Speaker C
And the collapse of the Iranian regime and its replacement by a regime loyal to the Western alliance means placing a hostile entity to the Eastern alliance within the sphere of influence, which poses a direct threat to China and Russia, but at the same time, China does not want Iran to remain as it is.
Speaker C
Rather, it wants to weaken it in a way that it will be under the Eastern umbrella led by China, and without fangs, especially after the Russian-Iranian position that was previously explained. That is, China today copies the American policy completely and turns it into a Chinese alternative product.
Speaker C
Therefore, it will try as much as possible to prolong the Western conflict with Iran, by supporting it in a way that achieves neither victory nor defeat, which achieves the entity's goal also, in order to achieve the dream of the greater land, from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Speaker C
For this, it is necessary to move the center of global power from America to Israel, and to move the center of trade to occupied Jerusalem.
Speaker C
And this is something that does not happen without war, and war needs a fuse, and lighting the fuse with fire.
Speaker C
And this fire was on three levels: the first was Epstein, the second was America, and the last was Iran.
Speaker C
After the end of the 12-day war, the entity began preparing for the coming full war.
Speaker C
But the obstacle was America itself. America does not want an open and comprehensive war with the Persians.
Speaker C
Fearing the effects on the economy and its entry into a quagmire similar to the Vietnamese quagmire in the twentieth century.
Speaker C
Therefore, America resorted to military pressure and lightning wars, but the occupying entity had a very deep goal.
Speaker C
The war on Iran is not for the sake of Iran, but it is the fuse to ignite the region to achieve the dream of the greater land.
Speaker C
But this cannot be implemented without America, not for military support, as some think.
Speaker C
America supports the entity with all kinds of logistical, financial, military, and political support, but the goal is to drag America itself into the war.
Speaker C
So America is hit economically, and its allies in the East are hit militarily, reaching the rest of the locations, with the aim of moving the center of trade from the Gulf countries to Jerusalem.
Speaker C
The superpower is America, and the center of trade and money is the Gulf countries, led by the Emirates.
Speaker C
Despite the fact that the Emirates is a direct ally of the occupying entity, its role is over now.
Speaker C
Just as the Persian role with America in the region ended, and to implement this, America must enter the war against Iran, in order to encircle Iran and drag it to strike the Gulf countries.
Speaker C
They know the Persian hostility towards the Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia, and they still consider it the Persian Gulf.
Speaker C
So when America strikes Iran, the fuse will first be generated for Iran to strike the American bases in the Gulf, and then strike the state centers in all the Gulf countries themselves.
Speaker C
And this is what is happening now, in the bombing of Kuwait Airport, and targeting the Emirates and Abu Dhabi, and the centers in Bahrain and Qatar, and finally Oman, the country that supported Iran until the last moment.
Speaker C
The Emirates knew that it was the scapegoat in this operation, but after it was too late.
Speaker C
For years of public alliance with the occupying entity, and the direct cause behind the massacres in Sudan.
Speaker C
It will be eliminated to move the commercial center from Dubai to Jerusalem.
Speaker C
After Iran announced operations against Dubai, it turned into a ghost town, and the owners of capital completely fled from it.
Speaker C
And this is what is happening now in the rest of the Gulf countries, by moving towards Europe, and it is only the first stage of the plan.
Speaker C
America knows the danger of this war very well, not because of Iran, but because of its repercussions on its interests in the East and its global economy.
Speaker C
Therefore, it presented the entity with a strategic alternative, which is to withdraw its forces from the Middle East, in preparation for the major operations of the occupying entity in the region.
Speaker C
But this was not enough for them, so after the failure of attempts to drag America into the war, the Epstein paper was brought.
Speaker C
The paper that forced Trump to enter this war without hesitation.
Speaker C
The Republican Party in America tried to distract global public opinion with alien stories, to cover up the Epstein files, without success.
Speaker C
Rather, the leaked papers and photos began to affect everyone, and there was no option but to enter the Iranian quagmire.
Speaker C
In preparation for moving power, influence, and money towards occupied Jerusalem.
Speaker C
What you see today is nothing but a short television advertisement that precedes the great war.
Speaker C
Which will change the face of the entire world, for time has become linked to the countdown.
Speaker C
And the sounds of the roar rise over the Mount of Olives, in preparation for getting rid of the abomination of the dead, and blowing the trumpet for the last structure.
Speaker C
This is the real reason for today's war, and people are busy with the analyses of anesthesiologists on screens.
Speaker C
The coming year is the year of great events, and Al-Aqsa is being prepared for a great matter.
Topics:Qassem SoleimaniIranRussiaSyriaMiddle East conflictUS-Iran relationsAssad regimeRussian-Ukrainian warIranian nuclear programIsrael-Iran war
