This topic of Soleimani is a good example of why Iran and Iranians will never be as progressive and successful as Germany on the national or international level. There is so much self-hate, jealousy, mistrust, "khod koochak bini", and political/religious/cultural narrow-mindedness among Iranians and the way they view their compatriots that it almost always prevents them from appreciating, supporting, or honoring any of their national heroes (while they are alive) so that they would be motivated, encouraged and supported to do even more for their country. Thus, Iranians as a nation are always living in regret and honor of their dead while a nation like Germany is mostly living optimistic and supportive of its accomplished heroes.
Erwin Rommel for example, was a German field marshal who commanded the Nazi German and Fascist Italian forces during WWII. He was considered one of the most able commanders of desert warfare and thus had earned the respect, fear and praise of both his own troops and enemies alike. Because of this he was extremely popular and respected by the German population to the point of the Nazi leadership fearing him as a possible competition and threat to their own power structure.
I think Soleimani would be an appropriate and comparable modern military figure to Erwin Rommel. Soleimani is also a field marshal who has proven his capabilities on the field and has not only the respect, fear, and praise of his own troops but also his enemies alike. But there's no need for the Iranian regime and leadership fearing this nationalist character because Iranians are masters of degrading, humiliating, and not appreciating their own as clearly evident and exemplified by the majority of comments on this board about him.
This utterly disgusting characteristic and behavior of most Iranians towards their own successful compatriots is not just limited to Soleimani somehow because he is a military or religious personality. You see the same ungrateful and degrading attitude towards sports figures like Daei or Azizi for example, artists, scientists, managers, entrepreneurs, writers, speakers, philosophers and essentially anyone who might attain some level of fame and accomplishment. As long as they are alive they and their accomplishment will somehow be belittled, ridiculed, or ignored by a good portion of the Iranian population (if not the majority) and then few years after they die then the majority of Iranians will start praising them, commemorating them, and even embellishing and remembering them as bigger and holier than they really were and thus taking comfort in a type of self-delusion that Iranians have a great history (but always a questionable future). This attitude has been going on decades if not centuries before Shah, during Shah, and now after the revolution and as I can tell will be going on for the foreseeable future.