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The <\/span>Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC)<\/span><\/a> was established on May 5, 1979. What started as a paramilitary group of ideologically trained units loyal to the supreme leader has now grown to be the sole protector and backbone of the ruling mullahs in Iran.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Quds Force is one of four forces of the <\/span>Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/span><\/a>. The other three forces are the ground forces under the command of the IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the Air Force under the command of the IRGC Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and the Navy under the command of IRGC Brigadier General Alireza Tangsiri.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to these four forces, the <\/span>IRGC<\/span><\/a> has organized a mobilization force called the Basij Organization, which is now under the command of IRGC Brigadier General Gholamreza Soleimani. The other three terrorist security organizations of the IRGC are the IRGC Intelligence Organization under the command of Mullah Hossein Taaeb, the Protection Organization under the command of Fathullah Jamiri, and the Protection of Information Organization under the command of Mohammad Kazemi. Among these eight main units of the IRGC, the Quds Force has a special role in the terrorist and war-mongering activities of the Velayat-e-Faqih regime.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the organization of the IRGC<\/a>, four forces and four organizations are under the Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, and his successor is IRGC<\/a> Brigadier General Ali Fadavi. There is also an important body representing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, headed by Abdullah Haji Sadeghi, who acts in line with the IRGC’s command, in the sense that it is not under the command of the Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief and is directly linked to Khamenei.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Before the establishment of this force in the Iranian regime, the activities of the <\/span>terrorist <\/span>Quds <\/span>force <\/span>existed in other forms and by other groups from the beginning of the dictatorial rule of the clerical regime, leading to the formation of the Quds terrorist force during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. To get acquainted with these groups, we have an overview of their history:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Khamenei supported individuals such as Mahmoud Hashemi, who later became the regime\u2019s Head of the Judiciary during Khamenei’s leadership, to form a group called the “Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq” by gathering Iraqis opposed to Saddam Hussein in Iran. At the same time in Iran, Mahmoud Shahroudi was appointed spokesman for the terrorist group, later known as the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After the Iran-Iraq war and Ruhollah Khomeini’s death, Khamenei became the Supreme Leader and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani became President. The two decided to do some sort of division of duties between the IRGC and the MOIS, which was in fierce competition with each other. The division of tasks was carried out so that terrorist operations against the regime’s political opponents abroad, including the assassination of their leaders, were entrusted mainly to the MOIS. Control and management of the foreign terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and other groups were handed to the IRGC. All the various subdivisions, including the Nasr base Command, headed by Reza Seifullahi, who was in charge of communicating with Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, merged and the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards was formed. Although there was no news about this terrorist force in the media for years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Quds Force, or Quds Corps, officially operates outside of Iran, although in times of crisis, such as the November 2019 popular uprisings, they are brought in to suppress uprisings and attack the Iranian people. With the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, and the extensive participation of the Quds Force under the command of Qassem Soleimani in supporting the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, the name of the Quds Force and Soleimani was published more than ever in the international media.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The most important operational areas of the Quds terrorist force at the beginning of its establishment. Following the end of the Iran-Iraq war, the terrorist force has expanded its activities to other countries and in the 1990s was mainly in Lebanon and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the particular focus of the Quds terrorist force on the countries mentioned above, the Revolutionary Guards terrorist organization is also involved in terrorist activities in all countries of the Middle East, from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. Among these terrorist interventions and activities, we can mention the conflicts between the regime and the Bahraini government, in which the Quds Force plays an active role. In recent years, there have been numerous reports of the arrest of members of the Quds terrorist force and weapons and ammunition in the Persian Gulf’s Arab states, especially in Bahrain.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The primary growth and expansion of the Quds Force took place with the beginning of Soleimani’s control in 1997. He was one of the few commanders of the IRGC liked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. It should be noted that most of the senior commanders of the IRGC during the Iran-Iraq war were closer to Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was the deputy commander-in-chief of the forces and the second in command of the regime after Khomeini. The Quds Force, which should logically be a subset of the IRGC Commander-in-Chief and his successor, gained some independence under the command of Soleimani due to his special relationship with Khamenei. As commander, Soleimani coordinated his plans and decisions more with Khamenei than with the commander or deputy commander of the IRGC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On January 2, 2020, a U.S.-led airstrike targeted a convoy exiting the Baghdad International Airport, killing <\/span>Qassem Soleimani<\/span><\/a>, the notorious commander of Iran\u2019s terrorist Quds Force. Ali Khamenei, the Iranian regime\u2019s supreme leader, declared three days of mourning for <\/span>Soleimani\u2019s death<\/span><\/a> and personally attended an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The overwhelming majority of Iranians despised Soleimani, an infamous symbol of the regime\u2019s intimidation and murder, for his crimes against the Iranian people and throughout the region. The Iranian people and Iraqi protesters who have been calling for Soleimani\u2019s expulsion from Iraq for some time welcomed his death as a sign of the waning of the regime\u2019s control over their country.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Soleimani, carrying the rank of major general, was Khamenei\u2019s hatchet man and a hated figure. During uprisings in Iran in 2018 and 2019, protesters tore up and torched his posters in different cities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Qassem Soleimani was born on March 11, 1957, in a village near the town of Baft, in the southeastern province of Kerman. He did not finish his elementary education. He worked as an unskilled construction laborer while he was very young. He did not receive any military training. Yet he rose to the top of the IRGC command because of his ruthlessness and loyalty to the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 1998, Soleimani was appointed as the commander of the terrorist Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of <\/span>the <\/span>Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The terrorist Quds force is a military body founded shortly after the 1979 revolution with the sole purpose of suppressing domestic opposition and waging terrorist wars beyond Iran\u2019s borders.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The mandate of the IRGC is to expand the fundamentalist ideology of the mullahs through killings, terrorist acts, and hostage-taking.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Quds Force plays a very special role in the IRGC and is tasked with orchestrating the regime\u2019s meddling in countries of the Middle East region, from Iraq to Syria and Yemen, and as far as the African continent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Although the Quds Force is assigned missions outside Iran, Soleimani, as a senior member of the IRGC\u2019s high command, was also a major contributor to the regime\u2019s repressive apparatus inside Iran.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In July 1999, at the height of student protests, he signed a letter along with other IRGC commanders, warning then-President Mohammad Khatami that if he did not put down the revolt, the IRGC would intervene.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur patience has run out,\u201d Soleimani, along with other IRGC Generals wrote. The police crushed the demonstrators, as they did again, a decade later in 2009.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Soleimani played a key role in the killing of the members of <\/span>the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/span><\/a>![\"Soleimani-Salami-and-Jafari\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Soleimani-Salami-and-Jafari.jpg\" "\\"Soleimani-Salami-and-Jafari\\"")
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<\/a><\/p>\nHistory of the creation of terrorist groups by the Iranian regime inside and outside the country<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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\nInternational arrest warrants were issued for the reigme’s then President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati, Minister of Intelligence Ali Fallahian, IRGC chief commander Mohsen Rezaie, Quds Force Commander Ahmad Vahidi, Iran\u2019s ambassador in Argentina Hadi Soleiman-pour, a Quds Force element in Argentina under the pretext of diplomat Ahmad-Reza Asghari, Iran\u2019s cultural attach\u00e9 in Argentina Mohsen Rabbani and Emad Moghnieh, a Hezbollah commander.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"IRGC-Brigadier-General-Ahmad-Vahidi\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IRGC-Brigadier-General-Ahmad-Vahidi.jpg\" "\\"IRGC-Brigadier-General-Ahmad-Vahidi\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe formation of the terrorist Quds force<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Quds Terrorist Force Mission: Terrorist activities outside Iran’s borders<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
A look at the areas of activity of the Quds Force of the IRGC<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Quds Force under the command of Soleimani<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Who Was the Vicious Criminal Qassem Soleimani<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Soleimani\u2019s Role in Murdering <\/span><\/b>MEK <\/span><\/b>Members<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n