{"id":22317,"date":"2017-03-08T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/22317-iran-to-stabilize-the-middle-east-weaken-the-irgc"},"modified":"2023-01-17T06:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:46:27","slug":"iran-to-stabilize-the-middle-east-weaken-the-irgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-to-stabilize-the-middle-east-weaken-the-irgc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: To Stabilize the Middle East, Weaken the IRGC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Profits Funding Terror: New Reports Examine Financial Tentacles of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has exclusive control over nearly half of the country\u2019s official shipping docks and uses them to evade sanctions, export arms to proxies in violation of international embargoes, and carry out other illicit activities.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a new report by the exiled Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)\/People\u2019s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK), which includes information and photographs of a number of the 90 docks it says are controlled by the IRGC in southern Iran. Wrote Patrick Goodenough on \u2018cnsnews\u2019 on March 8, 2017. The article<\/a> continues as follows:<\/p>\n

Released at a press conference in London on Tuesday, the report further lifts the lid on the activities of a vast enterprise which the Trump administration is considering designating a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).<\/p>\n

Separately, the NCRI\u2019s office in the U.S. will on Wednesday launch a new book highlighting ways in which the IRGC and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have, over the past eight years in particular, extended their grip over huge swathes of the Iranian economy, using the profits to sponsor terrorism.<\/p>\n

Entitled The Rise of the Revolutionary Guards’ Financial Empire: How the Supreme Leader and the IRGC Rob the People to Fund International Terror, the book warns that Western companies seeking to do business with the \u201cprivate sector\u201d in Iran now that sanctions have been eased under the nuclear agreement, will likely find themselves doing business \u201cwith Khamenei and the IRGC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind the official banks and companies lies a web of institutions controlled by the theocracy, and specifically the IRGC,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWestern companies, governments and the citizens they represent cannot avoid the reality that today the gate keepers to Iran\u2019s economy are those who suppress the Iranian population and export the very terrorism and fundamentalist ideology that threaten the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s event will include a panel discussion examining options to counter the threat posed by the IRGC.<\/p>\n

The report released on Tuesday in London says the IRGC funds its activities by smuggling items ranging from oil and gas to cigarettes and narcotics, with imports and exports moving through the docks worth some $12 billion a year.<\/p>\n

Ports under its control are located in the Persian Gulf-bordering provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan and on the Gulf islands of Farsi \u2013 where the IRGC Navy captured and humiliated U.S. sailors after their small patrol boats unintentionally entered Iran\u2019s territorial waters in January 2016 \u2013 and Faror.<\/p>\n

By order of Khamenei, the report states, \u201cno authority is allowed to oversee the activities of the IRGC at border areas, be it on the ground, sea or air docks and it can import anything in any quantity without paying any customs fee.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IRGC also controls ships and oil tankers, some of which are at times hired by other countries \u2013 such as Venezuela \u2013 with the funds raised going directly to the IRGC\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n

The NCRI\/MEK says that according to its sources within the regime, the IRGC uses its docks to ship arms to proxies in the region, such as the Houthi militia in Yemen, with weapons being smuggled to Yemen via ports in Oman (to evade a block on Iranian vessels in Yemeni ports).<\/p>\n

One IRGC shipping company, Admiral Group, was established five years ago by the sons of Ali Shamkhani, a former IRGC Navy commander and Defense Minister who is now secretary of the regime\u2019s Supreme National Security Council.<\/p>\n

The company, which has nine ships, \u201chas been specifically engaged in the dispatch of arms to Yemen,\u201d the NCRI claims.<\/p>\n

Other shipping companies involved in such activity were identified as Hafez Darya Arya and Valfajr.<\/p>\n

To stabilize the Middle East, weaken the IRGC<\/p>\n

NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Hossein Abedini said the revelations about the IRGC\u2019s control of scores of ports underscore that the organization \u201cis utilizing all its leverages, in particular economic leverages, to export Islamic extremism and terrorism that emanates from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stressed that many Iranian companies which Western firms want to do business with \u201care affiliated to the IRGC and the revenues generated in these transactions for the Iranian side in practice are used to finance terror and fundamentalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abedini called for the IRGC to be designated as a terrorist organization, and targeted in its entirety for \u201cserious and comprehensive sanctions,\u201d along with any foreign entity that deals with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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