Tag: IRGC
Israeli, Turkish intelligence foiled Iranian terror plot against Israelis
Israeli and Turkish intelligence agencies recently foiled an Iranian plot to attack Israeli targets on Turkish soil, senior Israeli officials told Ynet on Sunday.
“Things are really heating up there,” one official told Ynet, adding that Iran has...
US Treasury targets Russian-backed Iranian oil-smuggling network
On the day that the Biden administration point man on Iran testified before a Senate committee, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new sanctions package targeting an oil-smuggling and money-laundering network belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...
Iran buries assassinated IRGC colonel, vows revenge against global enemies
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Jan. 24, 2021. Credit: Shahab Ghayoumi via Wikimedia Commons.
Iran held the funeral on Tuesday for slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) Col....
Iranian Americans fear for safety from possible Iran-deal concession fallout
With reports that Iran has demanded that the Biden administration drop the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—a regime-controlled terrorist entity—from the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as a final condition to re-entering...
Biden administration’s Iran policy failing as Senate rejects appeasement
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected the Biden administration’s outline for a deal with Iran. Members voted 86-12 to approve a motion that opposes the lifting of terrorism sanctions on Iran to limit cooperation...
Biden accepts Bennett’s invitation to visit Israel ‘in coming months’
During a conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. President Joe Biden, Sunday, the President “accepted the Prime Minister’s invitation to visit Israel and announced that he intends to visit Israel in...
ADL task force calls on administration to keep IRGC on foreign terror list
As talks for the United States and Iran to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) appear to be stalled due to lingering differences, information that American negotiators may remove the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...
‘Nuclear deal on the table must not be signed,’ urges ex-Israeli national security adviser
The current draft of the Iran nuclear deal should “not be signed under any circumstances,” a former Israeli national security adviser has warned.
Brig. Gen. (res.) Professor Jacob Nagel, who served as acting national security...
Iran assembles ‘building blocks for long-range ballistic missiles,’ says Israeli space expert
Iran is gradually assembling the building blocks necessary to construct ballistic missiles with very long ranges, an Israeli missile and space expert has said, adding that Islamic Republic’s elite military Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
IRGC commander: Deaths of all US leaders would not vindicate Soleimani killing
Mohammad Pakpour, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that killing all American leaders would not be enough to avenge the assassination of former IRGC commander of the Quds Force,...