Tag: IRGC
Iran: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre was response to 2020 Soleimani killing
The Oct. 7 massacre in southwestern Israel was a response to the 2020 killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States, Tehran claimed on Wednesday.
"The Al-Aqsa Flood...
Trump: Netanyahu ‘let us down,’ Gallant ‘this jerk,’ Hezbollah ‘very smart’
Five days after Israel was brutally attacked by terrorists who infiltrated Israel's southern border—slaughtering at least 1,300 people, wounding thousands and taking as many as 150 others hostage—former U.S. President Donald Trump took aim...
Young Iranians increasingly emboldened to talk with Israelis on social media
Some 30 years ago, Homayoun and his classmates at his Tehran school stood daily before class and, following directions from teachers, chanted loudly, “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” At the time, Homayoun—an...
130 US lawmakers urge EU to give terrorist stamp to IRGC
A bipartisan group of 130 U.S. lawmakers on Monday sent a letter urging the European Union to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
The letter, addressed to E.U. foreign policy chief...
IRGC chief warns Riyadh against ‘relying on Israel’
In an apparent reference to the strengthening ties between Israel and Gulf Arab governments, Tehran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency said on Thursday that Iranian officials had told Saudi Arabia’s leaders they should stop relying on Israel.
“This is...
Iran denies responsibility for Rushdie knifing, Blinken decries continued incitement of violence
Iranian government officials denied that they were responsible for the brutal stabbing of internationally acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie on Monday, instead laying the blame on him.
“Regarding the attack against Salman Rushdie in America, we don’t consider...
What Iranian officials told the Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief in Tehran
Even before Israel’s “Operation Breaking Dawn” in Gaza was launched on Aug. 5, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhalah was in Tehran to meet with top regime officials and military commanders.
Nakhalah traveled to Iran...
Iranian charged in ‘murder for hire’ plot on ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was charged on Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department for plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Shahram Poursafi, 45, is accused of...
Report: Israeli hackers took down IRGC’s ‘Fars News’ website
A hardline Iranian media outlet connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Fars News Agency, has reportedly had its website hacked by Israeli hackers.
According to an opposition-linked website, Iran International, the hackers took responsibility for the...
In Argentina and Bulgaria, recalling two deadly terrorist attacks
Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina on Monday dedicated to the 85 people killed during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. They came to read the names of the victims,...