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When a senior Iraqi official traveled to Iran in 2007, he finally found out who was handling Iran's policy of relations with the west. Shockingly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn't the one handing these relations, but actually it was the paramilitary Quds force head named Qassim Sulaimani. He stated that he holds "sole authority for Iranian actions in Iraq," saying that whatever policy was taking place in Iraq was handled by him. With the promotion last year, Qassim Sulaimani holds the highest rank in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. He is the brain behind several policies, among them the Iranian influence towards Iraq and providing military security to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Qassim Sulaimani's role has created a series of conflicts with the U.S. Qassim Sulaimani tried to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and he is now on a list of considerable threats.