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IRGC's double tasks: Domestic suppression and terrorism abroad-Part IV

Monday, 26 November 2007
By: Reza Shafa Expanding IRGC's role in domestic suppression and terrorism abroad IRGC's Liberation Movement Unit, in 1981, was a part of then Public Relations office. However, that changed in 1984 and the unit dissolved into the Intelligence Unit (IU). In 1986, the IU developed two garrisons, Ramadan and Ballal to organize its terrorist operations. Ballal Garrison was specialized in expanding terrorism and fundamentalism in other counties while Ramadan concentrated on carrying out special operations as well as guerrilla warfare in Iraq.
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IRGC's double tasks: Domestic suppression and terrorism abroad - Part II

Thursday, 22 November 2007
By: Reza Shafa In July 1979, the IRGC commander, Javad Mansouri ordered Mohsen Rezaii, later he was appointed Commander in Chief of the IRGC, to head the newly established intelligence office. In September of 1979, Mansouri was replaced by Abbas Douzdouzani for lack of competence. However, his tenure as the IRGC top commander did not last long and had the same fate as his predecessor. He was replaced by present deputy commander in chief of the IRGC, Morteza Rezaii.
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Iranian deception: what the IAEA did not address

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
By Alireza Jafarzadeh Source: FoxNews On November 15, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its report about the latest status of Iran's nuclear program. Since the publication of the report, both Tehran and its critics are claiming victory. Tehran is using the report to claim that its nuclear program is a peaceful one, and critics have relied on the report saying that it is further indication that Tehran has not complied with the United Nations Security Council resolutions, has continued its uranium enrichment and deserves further punishment. What is missing from the report, among other issues, is the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp which has been running a secret nuclear weapons program in parallel to the nuclear energy program run by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
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IRGC's double tasks: Domestic suppression and terrorism abroad - Part I

Monday, 19 November 2007
By: Reza Shafa On February 24, 1979, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was born, the official daily Kayhan reported. However, it was not taken seriously until three months later when it was officially publicized. In the early days following the newly born revolution, the idea was announced by Ibrahim Yazdi, vice premier in Revolutionary Affairs as a bill ratified by then Revolutionary Council, the body worked in the absence of having an executive branch in those days.
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Resonance of the "Forbidden Chants"

Saturday, 17 November 2007
NCRI - At the heart of the religious dictatorship's declaration of war on the Iranian people, lies the mullahs' unswerving craving for the "waves of executions" and "gallows." Executions continued apace in the last few months in Tehran and other Iranian cities. The regime's main goal by the recent waves of executions remains to be the terrorizing and silencing of a resentful population. Yet, Iranian university students have launched a lethal arrow to the heart of the regime's campaign of cruelty by loudening chants of "Death to Dictator!" State terrorism is thus courageously defied.
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IRGC is on a fast track to proliferate WMD

Saturday, 17 November 2007
By: Reza Shafa In the afternoon of November 13, a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site in southern outskirts of Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured. The blaze which followed the explosion reminded everyone that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is going full steam ahead with its quest for WMD. Shrapnel coming off the missiles stored in the huge storage spaces especially built for the purpose, set on fire eight other places and sent columns of debris and smoke into the air.
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IRGC: Chief proliferators of weapons of mass destruction

Wednesday, 14 November 2007
By Alireza Jafarzadeh Source: FoxNews On October 25, 2007, the United States designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), nine of its affiliate organizations, as well as its top commanders, as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction under the Executive Order 13382. One of the units of the IRGC, known as the Qods Force, was also designated under the Executive Order 13224, as a terrorist organization. The question is â€” what do we know about IRGC's nuclear weapons involvement and how do we know it? According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which was first to uncover more than two decades of clandestine nuclear weapons program in August 2002, the IRGC involvement with the bomb goes back two decades.
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Who are the five Iranian officials implicated by the Interpol?

Saturday, 10 November 2007

IRGC and Quds Force under international spotlight

By Reza Shafa

"Interpol rejected Wednesday a request by Iran to drop arrest warrants against five leading Iranians, wanted by Argentina for their alleged role in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people," reported Agence France-Presse on November 7.