Far from being the world’s biggest anti-terrorist force, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard has a record of providing material, personnel and intelligence support to terrorist groups in the Middle East and Africa.
and institutions suspected of involvement in a crackdown on protesters, including senior officers of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps .. However, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on January 23 that step could not be taken without a court decision.its resolution was in response to the Iranian regime’s “violent, indiscriminate, disproportionate and unrestrained” suppression of peaceful protests and the “killing of protesters by the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Ghalibaf, a former senior IRGC officer and friend of its commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by the U.S. in 2020, also claimed that it was the IRGC that defeated the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.in the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. and other nations have also accused the IRGC of direct involvement in terrorist attacks targeting U.S. diplomatic personnel and troops.
. Its top officers enjoy direct ties to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It is estimated to have nearly 200,000 active troops and also controls the Basij Resistance Force, which is reportedly able to mobilize more than half a million regime loyalists and traditionally used to brutally suppress any domestic dissidence.
“U.S. President George W. Bush, who had previously identified Iran as a member of the ‘axis of evil,’ accused the Quds Force in 2007 of providing roadside bombs to Shia militants to kill American forces, though experts inside and outside the government questioned whether such orders came from the government. The Trump administration has attributed the deaths of 608 U.S. troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2011 to the IRGC.
“The 1979-80 hostage crisis and Iranian-backed attacks by Hezbollah on the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 killed over 300 Americans and were, until 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attacks on Americans in U.S. history.”
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