{"id":11337,"date":"2017-11-11T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2017-11-11T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T03:34:14","slug":"iranian-cleric-lauds-general-soleimanis-major-role-in-defeating-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iranian-cleric-lauds-general-soleimanis-major-role-in-defeating-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Cleric Lauds General Soleimani\u2019s Major Role in Defeating Daesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"lead\">TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Tehran&#8217;s Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the world should be grateful to Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani for his major role in defeating Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>Addressing a gathering of worshipers in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami hailed recent victories of the Iraqi and Syrian armies as well as their allied forces against the Daesh terrorists and said that with the grace of God, the criminal group has collapsed in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world should be grateful to the holy Islamic Establishment (of Iran), the fatwa of Shiite religious leadership, the Hashid al-Shaabi (Iraqi voluntary forces), and the Syrian government that countered the danger (Daesh) to the humanity,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The world should also thank Qassem Soleimani, who accomplished his advisory mission well and played a major role in defeating Daesh terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s army and its allies captured Daesh\u2019s last stronghold in the Arab country on Wednesday, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Daesh\u2019s so-called caliphate has been all but destroyed over the past two years, remaining only in Rawa in Iraq, in a few neighboring towns and patches of desert, and some isolated pockets elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian army and its allied fighters seized swathes of central and eastern Syria in an advance against the terror group this year.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Iran has remained a close ally of Syria and supports its legitimate government in the face of foreign-backed militancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Tehran&#8217;s Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the world should be grateful to Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani for his major role in defeating Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group. Addressing a gathering of worshipers in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11339,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions\/11339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}