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Revolutionary Guards Keep Stranglehold on Iran

Revolutionary Guards Keep Stranglehold on Iran

Aug 06, 2011 Economy, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC, IRGC Military Branches Comments Off on Revolutionary Guards Keep Stranglehold on Iran

  The Regime’s Shadow Warriors   By Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, also known as the Pasdaran, are the regime’s most important source of...
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The Revolutionary Guards

The Revolutionary Guards

Aug 04, 2011 Economy, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC, Politics Comments Off on The Revolutionary Guards

  Alireza Nader The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iran’s most powerful security and military organization, responsible for the protection and survival of the regime. The Guards are also...
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Qods Force Operation in Africa

Qods Force Operation in Africa

Aug 04, 2011 Economy, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC, IRGC Military Branches Comments Off on Qods Force Operation in Africa

  By Maseh Zarif In October 2010, Nigerian security forces seized an Iranian weapons shipment in the Lagos port of Apapa.  The arms seizure led to the arrest of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
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ISAF captures Qods Force-linked Taliban leader in Afghan west

ISAF captures Qods Force-linked Taliban leader in Afghan west

Aug 04, 2011 Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC, IRGC Military Branches Comments Off on ISAF captures Qods Force-linked Taliban leader in Afghan west

  By BILL ROGGIO In a raid in western Afghanistan yesterday, Coalition and Afghan troops captured a senior Taliban leader who is associated with Iran’s Qods Force. The Taliban leader, who...
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Iran Primer: The Basij Resistance Force

Iran Primer: The Basij Resistance Force

Aug 04, 2011 Human Rights, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC Military Branches, Tortures Comments Off on Iran Primer: The Basij Resistance Force

  On November 25, 1979, revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for the creation of a “twenty million man army.” Article 151 of the Constitution obliges the...
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The Al Quds: Iran’s Elite Secretive Guard

The Al Quds: Iran’s Elite Secretive Guard

Jul 25, 2011 History of IRGC, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC Comments Off on The Al Quds: Iran’s Elite Secretive Guard

  By ZUNAIRA ZAKI The United States has proof that the al Quds unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is involved in arming Shiite militias in Iraq, President Bush told reporters today....
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Qods (Jerusalem) Force Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC – Pasdaran-e Inqilab)

Qods (Jerusalem) Force Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC – Pasdaran-e Inqilab)

Jul 25, 2011 History of IRGC, Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC Comments Off on Qods (Jerusalem) Force Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC – Pasdaran-e Inqilab)

  While the Constitution of Iran entrusts the military with guarding Iran’s territorial integrity and political independence, it gives the Revolutionary Guard [Pasdaran] the responsibility...
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IRGC activities on foreign territory

IRGC activities on foreign territory

Jul 25, 2011 Iran Briefing Exclusive, IRGC, Politics Comments Off on IRGC activities on foreign territory

  IRGC activity in Afghanistan Iran’s involvement in Iraq is similar to that in Afghanistan, with the regime aiming to exploit American weaknesses in order to become a bigger regional player...
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A Letter to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran by a Former Diplomat

A Letter to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran by a Former Diplomat

Jul 24, 2011 Arrests, Executions, Human Rights, Iran Briefing Exclusive, Tortures Comments Off on A Letter to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran by a Former Diplomat

Translation by Iran Briefing: Hossein Alizadeh (46) former iran’s charge d’affairs in Helsinki,  was a career diplomat in the Iranian Foreign Ministry for 22 years. In protest to Islamic...
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An Analysis of the Current Social Movement in Iran

An Analysis of the Current Social Movement in Iran

Jul 21, 2011 Iran Briefing Exclusive Comments Off on An Analysis of the Current Social Movement in Iran

Korosh Erfani [email protected] The protests, in Iran, were sparked because of the incredible results that the government media broadcast the night of the presidential election, 12th June 2009....
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  • ‘Flagrant violation’: Iran protests US jet approach at UN
    ‘Flagrant violation’: Iran protests US jet approach at UN

    Jul 25, 2020 Comments Off on ‘Flagrant violation’: Iran protests US jet approach at UN

        Iran has protested the “flagrant violation” of international law to the United Nations after it said United States fighter jets sparked panic on an Iranian passenger plane over Syria.  ...
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  • Ayatollah Khamenei Hints Iran Yet to Strike ‘Reciprocal Blow’ Against US Over Soleimani Killing
    Ayatollah Khamenei Hints Iran Yet to Strike ‘Reciprocal Blow’ Against...

    Jul 22, 2020 Comments Off on Ayatollah Khamenei Hints Iran Yet to Strike ‘Reciprocal Blow’ Against US Over Soleimani Killing

        The January 3 drone strike assassination of Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad brought Iran and the US to the brink of war, with Tehran responding with missile strikes on...
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Qasem Soleimani, a hero or a terrorist?

Qasem Soleimani, a hero or a terrorist?

Feb 10, 2020 Comments Off on Qasem Soleimani, a hero or a terrorist?

On 3rd of January a news spread in social media regarding Qasem Soleimani and AbuMahdi Mohandes who has died by a US drone strike near Baghdad Airport and this was the end of their lives. In social media, especially Iranian users, there was a chaotic situation, some called of “the general of...
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