{"id":232315,"date":"2020-12-31T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=232315"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:27:12","slug":"irans-foreign-ministry-again-acknowledges-constant-coordination-with-the-terrorist-quds-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/irans-foreign-ministry-again-acknowledges-constant-coordination-with-the-terrorist-quds-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Again Acknowledges Constant Coordination With the Terrorist Quds Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the US drone strike that killed Iran\u2019s top terrorist operative, the regime\u2019s official media published retrospective commentary on his life. This included notes from a deputy to Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, affirming that Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a> and Qassem Soleimani<\/a> maintained a close working relationship right up until the latter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Deputy Minister of Legal and International Affairs Mohsen Baharvand was quoted as saying, \u201cI will never forget that when I went to the Political Studies Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs almost every Tuesday at 7:30 am to attend a strategic meeting on foreign relations, I saw the glorious martyr, General Haj Qassem Soleimani, who was escorted out of the meeting room by Dr. Zarif.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baharvand\u2019s recollection confirms what Foreign Minister Zarif had himself said in 2019 around the time he was invited to visit the headquarters of Iran\u2019s hardline paramilitary, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC<\/a>). As well as describing that visit as a great honor, the regime\u2019s top diplomat emphasized that he always coordinated closely with Soleimani, who had long been serving as the head of the IRGC\u2019s foreign special operations division, the Quds Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Zarif, that coordination was facilitated by weekly meetings, presumably the same meetings that Baharvand often saw the two men leaving together. As to the content of those meetings, Zarif seemed to indicate that there was rarely, if ever, serious disagreement between them with regard to the regime\u2019s foreign policy objectives and strategies. \u201cCommander Soleimani and I never felt we had any differences,\u201d he was quoted by state media as saying in September 2019. \u201cWe have been working together closely for over 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran FM Javad Zarif, and Chieftain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, two side of the same coin<\/div><\/div>
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