Feared Iran general tops Iranian person of year poll
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An Iranian general who has been a key adviser in Iraq's fightback against ISIS was voted Iran's person of the year in an annual poll released Sunday.
General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, won 37 percent of the votes cast in the survey to mark the Persian New Year, Nowruz.
Once rarely seen, Suleimani is now frequently pictured in social media near the front line in Iraq and has been spotted close to this week's battles in Tikrit.
He has become the public, if unofficial, face of Iran's support for the Iraqi and Syrian governments against ISIS jihadis, reportedly landing in Baghdad hours after ISIS overran Iraq's second city Mosul last June.
