Arash Azizi, Eric Jason Martin (Narrator), "The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions"
English | ISBN: B08PL4XSRJ | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:24:00 | 295 MB
Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region. A widely popular but also feared maverick operator, he helped to establish the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East, with interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. This was a long way from where he began as a youth, living on the margins in a country ruled by a monarch supported by the United States.