Robert Fisk: Was Qassem Soleimani a monstrous kingmaker or just an enabler?

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Robert Fisk: Was Qassem Soleimani a monstrous kingmaker or just an enabler?
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He was too close to intelligence operatives in non-Arab countries, particularly Turkey, and the Syrians found Soleimani’s rhetoric too much to stomach

The Interceptpublished less than two months ago, is worthwhile. Their provenance is a little unclear – and I can see why sceptics might claim them to have been planted. They suggested that Iran has far greater financial and political power over Arab leaders than previously known – and they portraynot so much as a monstrous king-maker but as an “enabler”, someone who makes the wheels of power turn in Iran’s favour.

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