Faruk Al-Bashir

"Shame. You come to our country to murder us, yet we are the terrorists?"

- Al-Bashir.

Faruk Al-Bashir, (فاروق البشير) sometimes spelled Farukh Al-Bashir, is a character in Battlefield 3's single-player campaign. He is the secondary antagonist in the story. Unlike the PLR insurgents, he seems to wear a military uniform. After a coup following a catastrophic earthquake in the Iran-Iraq border, Faruk comes into power in Iran. He is the leader of the Iranian insurgency known as the People's Liberation and Resistance, and when Jonathan Miller is captured following Operation Guillotine, he goes on video and after a short, two-sentence monologue, afterwards Solomon proceeds to execute Miller. In Night Shift the Marines are sent to capture Al-Bashir. However, he gets into a car crash when he tries to escape and later dies of his wounds while being extracted by the Marines.

Before he died, Al-Bashir gave critical intel to Blackburn about the day the bombs are set to explode while also cursing Solomon for "using" everyone to his own advantage. A mobile phone was also recovered on the corpse of Al-Bashir later to be inspected for intel.

Trivia

 * Faruk is referred to by Solomon as "brother", which may indicate they are close relatives. Although that may just be a metaphor.
 * Al-Bashir is portrayed by Ray Haratian.
 * When he was extracted and interrogated by the marines, he always refer and pronounce Solomon as "Sulaiman" (Farsi: سليمان)