Tag: Quds Force
UNSC to discuss alleged Israeli strike on top Quds Force commander in Syria
The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss an airstrike in Damascus on Monday afternoon that killed seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the top Iranian commander...
IRGC chief calls for ‘removal of Zionist regime’ at Mousavi funeral
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called for the annihilation of Israel on Thursday at a state funeral in Tehran for Razi Mousavi, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer killed in...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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,...
US general says he is against removing Iran’s Quds Force from terror list
U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Thursday that he is against removing Iran’s Quds Force, part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from the list...
Soleimani’s death was a blow to Iran, but far from a fatal one
Two months ago, on Nov. 7, 2021, one of the Shi’ite militias in Iraq deployed a suicide drone against the home of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The drone exploded, wounding a few security...