{"id":255188,"date":"2022-02-02T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=255188"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:01:07","slug":"lacking-legitimacy-and-weak-in-tehran-the-iranian-regime-projects-power-on-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/lacking-legitimacy-and-weak-in-tehran-the-iranian-regime-projects-power-on-high-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRI Conference Exposes IRGC Quds Force Proxy Naval Units"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On February 2, through its Washington Office, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) made public its latest revelations about the Iranian regime\u2019s newest strategy and terrorist arm, the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Naval Unit, and provided details about its mission, its bases and the best way to confront it.<\/p>\n

According to information received from the network inside Iran<\/a> of the main Iranian opposition, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), the Quds Force has been recruiting mercenaries for newly created, armed, and trained terrorist units to attack ships and maritime targets in the region. The IRGC-QF<\/a> conducts training in specialized naval courses in Iran for its Yemeni, Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, and African mercenaries and dispatches them to their home countries to form naval units.<\/p>\n

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For the first time, the NCRI-US office laid down details of the IRGC-QF\u2019s formation of terrorist naval units, including the cycle of recruitment and training for terrorist operations by proxy forces, as well as the cycle of sending weapons and other logistical support to them.<\/p>\n

The IRGC has more recently formed the Quds Force Naval Unit in the context of the expansion of its terrorist activities by proxy forces in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and several African countries. This Unit provides specialized (commando) training and forms operational units to conduct naval warfare.<\/p>\n

Since early 2021, and more so since August 2021, when Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> took office as the new president of the Iranian regime, Tehran has stepped up its maritime terrorist operations using its foreign mercenaries, especially the Houthis of Yemen.<\/p>\n

After the elimination of the Quds Force Qassem Soleimani<\/a> in January 2020, a major blow to the Quds Force\u2019s ability to directly encroach in the countries of the region, the IRGC\u2019s capacity to intrude in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria have been on the decline. To compensate for this blow, the IRGC has turned to intervention in Yemen, especially escalating naval terrorist activities and threatening the international shipping on its shores.<\/p>\n

The naval terrorist operations in the Red Sea and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab are supervised by the command center of the IRGC-QF but carried out by naval units established with Houthi forces.<\/p>\n

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National Council of Resistance of Iran – US https:\/\/t.co\/5gyq01wUzt<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) February 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n