Iran: IRGC and nuclear weapons - Part II

Friday, 18 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa Khomeini and the chalice of poison   On July 16, 1988, only two days before the cease fire, in a letter, Khomeini  stated the reasons why he accepted the UN Resolution 598 ending the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war which only on Iranian side left more than one million causalities and according to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then deputy commander-in-chief, one trillion dollars in economic losses.   Khomeini determined that the nation could not afford, politically or economically, to continue the war, and in a famous public statement compared the decision to "drinking a chalice of poison."

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Iran: IRGC and nuclear weapons - Part I

Thursday, 17 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa In 1980, the mullahs setting their eyes on the atomic bomb to guarantee the future of their regime assigned the newly formed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to open a center for research in nuclear weapons. In 1981, in a briefing for the brand new Research Unit (RU) of the IRGC, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, the number two man after Khomeini, described in great length the newly formed Islamic Republic's absolute necessity for obtaining nuclear weapons.

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Iraq: Khomeini's first step in realizing his Islamic empire - Final

Thursday, 10 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa What role do Hezbollah and other Qods Force's protégés play in Iraq? One should not overlook the role Qods Force's proxies play in its bloody campaign against the Iraqi people in that country. It is no doubt a battle for survival for those national forces who want to salvage Iraq from the devastating outcome of a hidden occupation by the mullahs' regime and its different proxies, now called by the US "Special Groups," under the Qods Force command in Iraq.

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Who is Iranian Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh

Wednesday, 09 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iranian general from the elite Qods force. The U.S. Treasury Department, which made the announcement, named the general as Ahmed Foruzandeh (Ahmad Forouzandeh), who it said "leads terrorist operations" against U.S. forces in Iraq and directed assassinations of Iraqi figures, Reuters reported. On January 11, 2007, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh and Brig. Gen. Mohammad Jafari Sahraroudi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and current deputy Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan for briefing the terrorist groups belonging to IRGC. However, when the US forces raided and arrested a number of IRGC officers and operatives in Arbil, the two were on their way back to Tehran.

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Iran Gulf Confrontation Message to Bush on Eve of Mideast Trip

Wednesday, 09 January 2008

By Alireza Jafarzadeh Source: FoxNews In a blatant display of belligerence and outright provocation, and on the eve of President George W. Bush's trip to the region, the Tehran regime had five speed boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) harass three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. The Strait of Hormuz is the major waterway connecting the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf and is vital to the free shipping there. The Pentagon described Tehran's actions as "careless, reckless and potentially hostile." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the move as "provocative and dangerous."

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2008: A Barbaric Beginning in Iran

Saturday, 05 January 2008

Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran The ayatollahs' regime in Iran began the year 2008 the same way it ended 2007: with more gallows and executions. Nearly 20 executions, some in public, took place in the month of December alone. According to the Agence France Presse, Iran carried out at least 297 executions in 2007, which is about 70% increase in respect to the 2006 numbers. The 2008 looks to be even more promising for the ayatollahs' executioners. They had a strong opening on January 2, when13 Iranians including the mother of two young children were executed according to the state media. At least three of executions took place in public.

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Iraq: Khomeini's first step in realizing his Islamic empire - Part VI

Thursday, 03 January 2008

Qods Force's Kosar and Mobin front entities in Iraq By: Reza Shafa Kosar Organization was setup to cover the mullahs' real intention in the country. Since the early 1980s and sudden appearance of an odious method of expanding Islamic fundamentalism by the newly established government in Tehran, the same tactics, as tested positive in the past, was the order of the day for the Qods Force in Iraq. Since early September 2003, the Qods Force under the pretext of humanitarian aids to the poor and needy in Iraq began a widespread campaign to extend its terrorist network.

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Iraq: Khomeini's first step in realizing his Islamic empire - Part V

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Qods Force's physical presence in Iraq By: Reza Shafa The Qods Force has some 40,000 men in Iraq. In January 2007, in a press conference in London, the Iranian Resistance revealed a detailed list of 32,000 on mullahs' payroll with their account numbers in Iranian banks and their ranks in the IRGC's military hierarchy. In addition, to pursue its goal in Iraq, the Qods Force has established dozens of terrorist and intelligence networks throughout the country.

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Iraq: Khomeini's first step in realizing his Islamic empire - Part IV

Friday, 28 December 2007

Qods Force spreading its wings across Iraq By: Reza Shafa Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, Qods Forces' top man, was directly briefed by supreme leader Ali Khamenei in late spring 2003 to begin organizing the Iranian regime's sympathizers in a move to execute different phases of covert Iraqi occupation. That of course involved massive transfer of both men and equipment to the country.

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