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NCRI \u2013 Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brigadier Abdolreza Shahlai has been named by the National Council of Resistance of Iran as the mastermind behind the deadly attack on Camp Liberty, which left seven dead and 100 injured.<\/p>\n
Shahlai is a top IRGC official who has been posted to Iraq for the past 20 years, where he has planned multiple assassinations of the coalition forces in Iraq – in particular US military personnel.<\/p>\n
He has also been involved in recruiting Iraqis to send to terrorist training camps in Iran and is in charge of building the Iranian regime’s terrorist network in Iraq.<\/p>\n
He is known to work closely with IRGC Major general Ghasem Suleimani, the commander of the terrorist Quds Force, and with Ahmad Forouzandeh, Abdolreza Shahlai and Taghavi – all top IRGC officials who oversee assassinations in Iraq.<\/p>\n
In 2003, just a few months after the invasion of Iraq by the coalition forces, Ghasem Suleimani sent three top military officials at the Iran-Iraq borders to meddle with Iraqi affairs. <\/p>\n
Ahmad Forouzandeh was in charge of the southern region, Taghavi was in charge of the central region and Abdolreza Shahlai was placed in charge of the western and northern regions.<\/p>\n
Shahlai’s mission was to recruit paramilitary groups to be trained in Iran.\u00a0 One such training centre is a military compound called the ‘Hezbollah Compound’ located near the city of Varamin.<\/p>\n
This compound was used to train Badr forces who were sent to Iraq in 2003. The compound was then used by the Quds Force, headed by Shahlai, to train people recruited in Iraq. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Shahlai, alongside Jafari Sahranavardi \u2013 who murdered Abdolrahman Ghasemloo in Berlin \u2013 acted as a key middle man to maintain contact between Iraqi president Jalal Talebani and the Iranian regime during the previous Government of Iraq.<\/p>\n
Talebani has met with both Shahlai and Sahranavardi a number of times in Baghdad, and in one such meetings in 2004, they talked about the extradition of the members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) to Iran.<\/p>\n
In 2004, Shahlai asked Abou Mehdi Mohandes, the leader of an Iraqi Islamic Group, to organize demonstrations against the presence of the MEK in Iraq.<\/p>\n
In a news conference on March 22 of 2007, Alireza Jafarzadeh revealed the presence of terror training camps in Iran. Mr Jafarzadeh presented maps, addresses and the training programs of the camps and emphasized that these compounds headed by Shahlai are all used for training Iraqi terrorists.<\/p>\n
The assassination of the Saudi ambassador in the Washington plot of October 2011 was headed by Karimi, and Abdolreza Shahlai is known to have acted as his deputy.<\/p>\n
The US Treasury department enlisted two organizations and five individuals in its black list on September 16 of 2008. Shahlai was among them.<\/p>\n
The US Treasury department emphasized: ” Abdul Reza Shahlai–a deputy commander in the IRGC\u2013Qods Force–threatens the peace and stability of Iraq.”<\/p>\n