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NCRI – On July 25, 2017, US congress passed Iran Sanctions Bill to counter with Iranian regime\u2019s ballistic missile program and terrorist activities, and to designate the IRGC as a terrorist group.<\/p>\n
The new sanctions are approved following Resistance of Iran\u2019s widespread activities, revealing the IRGC\u2019s role in repression at home and exporting terrorism and fundamentalism abroad, as well as its role in regime\u2019s nuclear and missile program.<\/p>\n
Through holding a series of press conferences and publishing several books, Resistance of Iran has exposed the IRGC\u2019s role to public opinion:<\/p>\n
In a press conference held at French Correspondents Club\u2019s hall on 12 November 2008, the book \u2018IRGC: A Fundamentalist, Terrorist Army\u2019, by Mehdi Abrishamchi, responsible for NCRI\u2019s Peace Committee, was introduced.<\/p>\n
In the conference, Mehdi Abrishamchi and former Algerian PM \u2018Syed Ahmed Ghazali\u2019, who has written the book\u2019s preface, described IRGC\u2019s role as Mullahs\u2019 main tool for exporting reactionarism and terrorism.<\/p>\n
The 333-page, French-language \u2018IRGC: A Fundamentalist, Terrorist Army\u2019 describes in 13 chapters the history and formation of IRGC, its role as regime\u2019s main organ for repression at home and exporting terrorism abroad, its plundering of Iranian people\u2019s properties, and details of IRGC\u2019s regional interventions, particularly in Iraq.<\/p>\n
Revealing terrorist Quds Force\u2019s training centers<\/strong><\/p>\n In a conference held in NCRI\u2019s Washington office on 16 February 2017, Resistance of Iran revealed Mullahs regime\u2019s terrorist Quds Force\u2019s training centers, used for training regime\u2019s foreign hirelings and sending them to various countries to fight and export terrorism.<\/p>\n \u201cIn order to intensify its interventions in the region, including in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, and Afghanistan, the terrorist Quds Force has formed a huge center to train its foreign hirelings\u201d, said Resistance of Iran\u2019s representative in the press conference, adding \u201cDirectly supervised by Khamenei, the training division has dozens of bases across Iran. Quds Force\u2019s training center accounts for one of regime\u2019s most important terrorist organs.\u201d<\/p>\n The training hadquarter as well as 14 of its training bases already identified by Resistance of Iran were revealed in the press conference, in which it was also maintained that \u201cin addition to Quds Force, other IRGC\u2019s forces, including its ground troops, navy, and missile forces are also involved in regime\u2019s regional interventions, thus providing regime with force, weaponry and facilities to fulfill its expansionist, warmongering policies.\u201d<\/p>\n Introducing the book \u2018The Rise of IRGC\u2019s Financial Empire\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n In another revealing conference held at NCRI\u2019s office in Washington on 8 March 2017, the book \u201cIran: the Rise of IRGC\u2019s Financial Empire\u201d was introduced, during which it was described how IRGC is expanding terrorism and intensifying regime\u2019s regional interventions while at the same time is tightening its grip on Iran\u2019s economy under the ruling of Mullahs, so as to provide for costs of its activities.<\/p>\n As asserted in the conference \u201csince 2005, Khamenei under the cover of \u2018privatization\u2019 has actually tightened his grip on Iran\u2019s economy and directed it towards the IRGC. The Mullahs regime is squandering 15-20 billion dollars a year in Syria. The IRGC has all the characteristics of a terrorist group and therefore it should be designated as a terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n The conference also included a discussion session in which several US politicians and experts took part. After reviewing IRGC\u2019s role as regime\u2019s main organ responsible for repression at home and exporting terrorism abroad, the participants in the discussion session called for designating IRGC as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n Revealing new aspects of regime\u2019s atomic bomb development program<\/strong><\/p>\n Then on 21 April 2017, NCRI\u2019s office in Washington held a press conference in Willard Hotel, revealing in front of foreign correspondents the new aspects of Mullahs\u2019 continuous efforts for designing and developing an atomic bomb following the 2015 nuclear deal.<\/p>\n In the press conference, NCRI described regime\u2019s \u2018New Defense Research Institute\u2019, aka SEPAND, which is the engineering organ of Mullahs regime\u2019s nuclear weapon program, and also revealed the nuclear program\u2019s new \u2018Explosion and Blow Technology Research Center\u2019, aka MEFTAZ, in Parchin\u2019s Research institute. It was also maintained in the conference that \u201ccredible information gathered by PMOI network inside Iran shows that the structure of the organ responsible for designing nuclear bomb, actually the mastermind behind Mullahs regime\u2019s nuclear bomb project, has been completely maintained following the nuclear deal, so that not only no reduction in its activates has been made, but its activities in some areas has even increased.<\/p>\n Revealing IRGC\u2019s 42 missile centers<\/strong><\/p>\n NCRI\u2019s Washington office then held another press conference on 20 June 2017, revealing IRGC\u2019s 42 missile centers responsible for missile development, testing, maintenance, launch, and control. The NCRI then called for imposing comprehensive sanctions on IRGC, designating it as a terrorist organization, and expelling its troops and its affiliated militias from regional countries, particularly from Syria and Iraq. Alireza Jafarzadeh said \u201cfollowing the nuclear deal, the IRGC has intensified its efforts to develop and expand its missile program, while Khamenei has made IRGC\u2019s aerospace division responsible for accomplishing this mission.\u201d<\/p>\n Jafarzadeh stressed \u201cResistance of Iran has identified IRGC\u2019s 42 missile centers involved in missile development, test, maintenance, launch, and control. Of the 42 centers, 15 are dedicated to missile development industry. The remaining 27 centers identified by Resistance of Iran belong to IRGC\u2019s aerospace division, including IRGC\u2019s missile launch and control center (located in Dastvareh Garrison, Chitgar district, Tehran), and three places for missile testing (Southern Semnan, around Qom\u2019s Salt Lake, and Southern Varamin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NCRI – On July 25, 2017, US congress passed Iran Sanctions Bill to counter with Iranian regime’s ballistic missile program and terrorist activities, and to designate the IRGC as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-23272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n