Tag: Quds Force
Reports name previously unknown senior Quds Force officer ejected by Assad
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,...
Report: Mossad thwarts Iranian attacks against Israelis in Africa
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...
Nearly two years after Soleimani assassination, IRGC takes over roles reserved for Quds Force
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...
Deputy Quds Force commander dead of heart attack, says Iran
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...
Senior IRGC Quds Force general dies of COVID-19
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...
NPT commitments ‘meaningless’ if scientists, facilities unsafe, says senior IRGC commander
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...
IDF reveals: Iranian Quds Force’s Unit 840 behind Golan Heights bombing attempt
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...
How Iran uses charities and humanitarian organizations as cover to export its revolution
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...
Report: Senior Quds Force commander assassinated near Damascus
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 Quds Force commander vows to bring about rule of ‘Hidden Imam’
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...