Mastermind Of Destruction
January 20 2020
Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. airstrike in early
January, played a key role in Iran's regional strategy, including
supplying explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) to militias in
Iraq. Shown above are copper plates and bomb-making materials
for building EFPs that were captured by Iraqi troops in 2008.
On Jan. 3, the U.S. killed the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in an airstrike outside of...
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