Qanat-e Malek (Persian: قنات ملک, also Romanized as Qanât-e Malek and Ghanat-e Malek), also known as Kahnau Malik or Kahnū Malek (کهنو ملک),[1] is a village in Javaran Rural District, Hanza District, Rabor County, Kerman Province, Iran.

At the 2006 census, its population was 338, in 77 families.

[2] Qasem Soleimani, an eminent Iranian military commander who was known by his assassination by Americans, was born in this village on 11 March 1957.

[3] He was a Lieutenant general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from 1998 until his death, the commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily in charge of clandestine extraterritorial military operations.

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