in october, qasem soleimani's father passed away.st to understand what kind of people attended the funeral. for example, one of them was the leader of shia militias in iran. another person was a representative of hamas. many other people attended to express their condolences in person to him. it shows how powerful and influential he is. general soleimani financed, trained and equipped thousands of shia militias to support iran's allies in syria and iraq, including lebanese hezbollah, a group which is also on the us terrorist list. its leader says iran pays the bill. it's been estimated that iran has spent $6 billion annually on the syrian regime, basically, to keep it afloat. this is a conservative estimate on the proxy group, the lebanese hezbollah. iran is estimated to be allocating $1 billion a year to the group, mostly according to israeli intelligence forces. general soleimani says, if iran does not engage with enemies outside the country's borders, it will have to fight them in the streets of tehran. as he tells his fighters on