"General Soleimani remains the most popular Iranian public figure among those tested, with eight in ten viewing him favorably."

University of Maryland conclusion to survey results of thousands of Iranians.

source: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://cissm.u...

The gov comes down hard on people saying they don't like him, so the answers people give are biased. How biased, I don't know. I can tell you that even people who liked him still got outraged at the plane shooting.

Before or after he became a martyr?

Iran’s government and their supporters don’t, yeah. The people with no stake in this fight, the Iranian civilians though?