By Reza Shafa

Associated Press, on Friday published a report of "hit squads" being trained in four Iranian cities – quoting a US intelligence officer- by both the Qods Force and Lebanese Hezbollah. It is good news that the mullahs' plans to export well trained terrorists -- the US army called them "special group criminals" – to Iraq for carrying out a variety of terrorist operations are exposed.

By Reza Shafa

In the midst of the sweeping changes being implemented within the IRGC, and Jafari’s appointment of his close allies to vital posts, Jafari has also assigned Mohammad-Jafar Assadi, former IRGC commander of the Lebanon branch, to head the IRGC’s ground forces.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

The latest political flap in Tehran involves a forged doctoral decree and bogus academic credentials for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's newly appointed Interior Minister, Ali Kordan.

By: Reza Shafa

Since early summer, IRGC commander-in-chief, Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jafari, has started to implement sweeping changes within the IRGC. They characterize the most significant and unprecedented changes since the 1985 order by Rohallah Khomeini to equip the IRGC with an air force and a navy in addition to its ground forces. In the course of these extensive changes, the IRGC will shift focus from being a centralized force to having 31 distinct provincial brigades, the commanders of which will be given wide-ranging discretions.

By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

As yet another deadline passed and Tehran again refused to suspend its uranium enrichment, the real response came in the form of naval missile tests, and threats to close the Strait of Hormuz for an ''unlimited period.''

By Raymond Tanter
Source: The Washington institute for Near East Policy
August 4, 2008

Throughout summer 2008, Iraqi politicians tied to Tehran have put increasing political pressure on the U.S. government to allow Baghdad to control Camp Ashraf, the base housing Iran's main opposition -- the Mujahedin e Khalq (MEK). Options regarding Iraqi-based MEK members are limited, but include the following: sending them to the United States; allowing them to stay in Iraq under Iraqi control; dispersing them to surrounding countries, including Iran; or maintaining the status quo with the continued protection of the U.S. military. Since each option is problematic, finding a solution is neither easy nor simple.

By:Reza Shafa 

The Iranian regime’s Air and Space Organization, part of its Ministry of Defense, along with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unit responsible for the missiles program, are collaborating extensively and secretly in the field of missile technology transfer to Venezuela. The IRGC’s commanders even attended the June 2008 Venezuelan military exercise.

During the past 5 years, the Iranian regime has established extensive military and political relations with Venezuela, with its investments in that country totaling roughly 10 billion dollar. Mullahs’ former president, Mohammad Khatami, and their current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have each traveled to Venezuela twice, while the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has also reciprocated with his own trips to Tehran on a number of occasions.

By: Reza Shafa

As a result of the growing number of revolutionary guard commanders who are deserting their posts for fear of the fall of the Iranian regime, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) commander Mohammad Ali (Aziz) Jafari has begun to take action to find replacements. Jafari was forced to replace a number of top commanders, with lower ranking recruits that the mullahs' Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had chosen. In order to raise morale, and begin to put the guards on the offensive, Jafari has begun his missile tests which he called “razmayesh 3”, which used the Hoot and Shahab 3 missiles.