Radio Farda:

By Morad Vaisibiame

Brigadier General Esmail Qa'ani (Ghaani) visited Iraq this week for the first time since his appointment as the commander of the IRGC's Qods Force and was secretly welcomed at Baghdad Airport under tight security measures.

Some sources say he left the airport in a motorcade of three cars, but no one knows where he stayed in Baghdad, whom did he meet with and when did he leave Iraq after the visit.

Such information usually surfaces later, in piecemeal and gradually on social networks close to the IRGC in Iran or those linked with Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq.

Details about these visits appears between the lines in reports carried by IRGC-linked news agencies including Fars and Tasnim or in interviews with Iraqi Shiite militia leaders.

Such reports usually portray even the most ordinary visits to a tour de force of IRGC's success and influence in the region.

But how has the IRGC Qods (Quds) Force been performing since the killing of Qassem Soleimani? Has it maintained the same degree of influence in Iraq and Syria and beyond? What dos the future of the force look like?

Failure To Create Accord Among Shiite Militia

Four months after Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi resigned, the Islamic Republic has still not managed to create an accord among its proxy militia groups about who should lead the cabinet in Iraq. Qa'ani has been the Qods Force Commander in 3 of those 4 months. And he has not been able to unite these groups to support an Iran-backed new prime minister.

Former Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani was able to bring together the leaders of the Shiite groups and force them to work together.

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