Skip to Content

Middle East

Iran & Proxies

Iranian Regional Escalation

See AEI's Iran Tracker Where is Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani?

September 4, 2013

See AEI's Iran Tracker Where is Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani?

Will Fulton writes about possible reasons for a dearth of coverage on one of Iran’s most powerful and revered security officials:

“No show: Suleimani’s scheduled presence and topic of discussion at this meeting — Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon — was reported weeks in advance. This was pre-planned and important. For Suleimani not to show at all would mean that his presence was required (in the most literal sense of the term) elsewhere. Could this indicate that the IRGC and other senior regime officials, or Assad, are panicking over the possibility of a U.S. intervention? Or is Suleimani simply attending to his responsibilities at this critical juncture (what IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami called on September 3 “the threshold of a strategic turning point for the region’s future”)?”

Read the entire post at: http://www.irantracker.org/analysis/fulton-suleimani-speech-sept-04-2013

Related

Research

Update

Middle East

Iran & ProxiesIraqSyria

Iran Update, December 16, 2025

Update

Middle East

Iran & ProxiesIraqSyria

Iran Update, December 15, 2025

Update

Middle East

Iran & ProxiesIraqSyria

Iran Update, December 12, 2025

Update

Middle East

Iran & ProxiesIraqSyria

Iran Update, December 11, 2025