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A map showing locations of Hezbollah and proxy positions in southern Syria. Credit: Alma Research and Education Center.

Reports name previously unknown senior Quds Force officer ejected by Assad

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Recent reports have named a previously unknown senior officer working in Syria on behalf of the Iranian Quds Force, Israel’s Kan news reported on Thursday. The report, citing an Arabic report by the United States-based Alhura Arabic-language media report,...
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Igor Grochev/Shutterstock.

Report: Mossad thwarts Iranian attacks against Israelis in Africa

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Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has thwarted a series of planned Iranian attacks against Israelis in Africa, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Following the receipt of “accurate intelligence” from “Western intelligence sources,” the security forces of...
The Tehran funeral of Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, Iranian head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, who was assassinated by an American drone strike, Jan 7, 2020. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

Nearly two years after Soleimani assassination, IRGC takes over roles reserved for Quds Force

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Some 21 months after a United States drone strike killed Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, a noticeable shift in the balance of power within the Iranian military system has taken place. The...
IRGC Brig. Gen. Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi. Credit: Tasnim News Agency.

Deputy Quds Force commander dead of heart attack, says Iran

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The deputy commander of Iran’s Quds Force has died of heart disease, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, who died at the age of 65, took up the...
Iranian Brig. Gen. Abdolrasool Ostovar. Source: Twitter.

Senior IRGC Quds Force general dies of COVID-19

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A senior member of Iran’s elite Quds Force died of coronavirus, the country’s state-run Tasnim news agency reported Sunday. Iran is widely considered the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism. The Quds Force is its extraterritorial black-ops arm...
IRGC Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who formerly served as Iran's Defense Minister and as commander of the IRGC's notorious Quds Force, is interviewed by Iran's Ofogh TV on Nov. 28, 2020. (MEMRI)

NPT commitments ‘meaningless’ if scientists, facilities unsafe, says senior IRGC commander

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Former Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that Iran’s commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Additional Protocol is “meaningless” if its scientists and nuclear installations are not safe. “If we decide to...
An Israeli soldier neutralizes roadside bombs found on the Israeli side of the Alpha line in the southern Golan Heights, Nov. 17, 2020. Source: IDF Spokesman's Office.

IDF reveals: Iranian Quds Force’s Unit 840 behind Golan Heights bombing attempt

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The Iranian Quds Force’s Unit 840 was responsible for the roadside bombs discovered by Israeli forces on Tuesday in the southern Golan Heights, the Israeli military revealed on Thursday. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a billboard of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How Iran uses charities and humanitarian organizations as cover to export its revolution

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A new report that maps out the ways in which Iran’s overseas elite unit, the Quds Force, operates in Syria under various guises has called on the United States to designate three organizations tied to the...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a billboard of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Report: Senior Quds Force commander assassinated near Damascus

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An Iranian Quds Force field commander was assassinated near the Syrian capital, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency identified the commander as Farhad Dabirian and said he was killed in the south Damascus...
New commander of the Iranian Quds Force Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani. Credit: Erfan Kouchari via Wikimedia Commons.

New Quds Force commander vows to bring about rule of ‘Hidden Imam’

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Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Esamil Ghaani, the new commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, pledged on Monday to “continue the path” of his predecessor Qassem Soleimani and “bring about the global rule...