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IRGC Brigadier Iraj Masjedi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Summary: <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Factsheet: Widespread Presence of Regime’s Quds Force in Iraq Under Diplomatic Cover<\/p>\n

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Appointment of Iraj Masjedi, a War Criminal, as #Iran<\/a>‘ian Ambassador to #Iraq<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/bhf45V5XtN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/IT6TP5VZCq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In order to conceal Masjedi\u2019s terrorist crimes, present him as the ambassador, and obtain diplomatic immunity for him, websites for the regime\u2019s Foreign Ministry and its Embassy in Iraq include biographies for Masjedi that are completely different from those that have already appeared in Iran\u2019s state-run media.<\/p>\n

In this introduction of \u201cMr. Ambassador,\u201d there is not even the slightest reference to his military background in the IRGC or his command of the Ramazan Base. Instead, he is presented as an expert, researcher, political strategist, and university professor.<\/p>\n

Iraj Masjedi\u2019s Introduction on the websites of the regime\u2019s Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Iraq<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Personal information: <\/em><\/p>\n

First Name: Iraj <\/em><\/p>\n

Surname: Masjedi <\/em><\/p>\n

DOB: 1956<\/em><\/p>\n

POB: Khuzestan province <\/em><\/p>\n

Marital Status: Married and has 3 children <\/em><\/p>\n

Education: <\/em>Masters in History from Shahid Beheshti University (former national university)<\/em><\/p>\n

Masters in Strategic Management<\/em><\/p>\n

Resume: <\/em><\/p>\n

Teaching management at different universities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n

Has worked for years in different political, security and advisory positions related to the political, defense, cultural and economic fields of Iraq and has a close relationship with Iraqi government officials and authorities in different parts of this country. <\/em><\/p>\n

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  • Strategic expert <\/em><\/li>\n
  • Senior advisor to Iraqi authorities on defense and national security issues. <\/em><\/li>\n
  • Senior advisor on Economic Relations with Iraq Headquarters<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    On April 18, 2017, [Masjedi] entered Baghdad and started his activity after submitting his letter of credence to the Iraqi Foreign Minister. <\/em><\/p>\n

    On January 17, 2017, Iraj Masjedi\u2019s appointment as the regime\u2019s third ambassador to Iraq was announced. On the same day, the state-run Mizan News Agency wrote, \u201cSome of the media outlets name \u2018IRGC Brigadier General Iraj Masjedi,\u2019 the senior advisor of IRGC\u2019s Quds Force, as Iran\u2019s new ambassador to Iraq. General Masjedi, the possible ambassador of Iran in Iraq, was the chief of staff of the IRGC\u2019s only exterritorial garrison (Ramazan Garrison) during the sacred defense [Iran-Iraq war]. Most of the garrison forces were elite forces who had the experience of fighting in Kurdistan and regional countries. They had to walk for kilometers, going through mountains and up and down to get to the target and carry out their operation. The mission of [Ramazan] garrison was performing guerilla operations inside the Iraqi territory with the cooperation of the Iraqi-Kurdish dissidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

    2-<\/strong>Examples of Masjedi\u2019s roles before becoming an ambassador<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Before his appointment as the Iranian regime\u2019s ambassador in Iraq, state-run media outlets presented Iraj Masjedi as the senior advisor to Qassem Soleimani. Masjedi participated in the memorials of the IRGC forces killed in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. The following pictures are some examples of his presence as one of the senior officials of the Quds Forces at these funerals:<\/p>\n

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    January 31, 2015- Mashhad: Memorial of Imad Mughniyeh and his son Jihad. Jihad was killed along with the IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Allahdadi in Syria<\/p>\n

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    06-18-2016\u060c Sari- Mazandaran Province: Iraj Masjedi at the memorial of 13 killed IRGC members in Khan Tuman in Syria.<\/p>\n

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    A large gathering in Khorasan Province for martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war and so-called defenders of the Shrine to Zeinab, the daughter of Imam Ali.<\/p>\n

    3-Masjedi\u2019s behavior in Iraq: foreign governor or representative of an occupying force?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    On December 15, 2018, Iraj Masjedi participated in the Iraqi National Assembly and when the chairman of the session asked the participants to rise in respect of the Iraqi martyrs, Masjedi left the parliament. Many Iraqi media outlets described Masjedi\u2019s departure as offensive to the Iraqi people.<\/p>\n

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    December 15, 2018- Iraj Masjedi leaving Iraqi Parliament\u2019s session.<\/p>\n

    On September 26, Brigadier General Masjedi said, \u201cIf Iran\u2019s regime is attacked, the regime will target American forces in Iraq.\u201d By apparently boasting about the IRGC Quds Force\u2019s free hand in interfering in Iraq, Masjedi helped to spark Iraq\u2019s current protests.<\/p>\n

    Masjedi has direct relations with so many leaders of the groups that make up the Popular Mobilization Forces. Some examples are below:<\/p>\n

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    Masjedi\u2019s meeting with Ammar Hakim on February 1, 2018<\/p>\n

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    Iraj Masjedi\u2019s meeting with Akram-al Kaabi, head of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba on June 26, 2019. The United States included Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and its leader Akram-al-Kaabi on its sanctions list on March 5, 2019.<\/p>\n

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    Iraj Masjedi\u2019s meeting with Nouri-al Maleki on July 16, 2019<\/p>\n

    4. Ramazan Garrison and Masjedi\u2019s actions in the Iran-Iraq war<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Former IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezai once said that when the regime\u2019s authorities welcomed the plan for establishing the Ramazan Base, he immediately created the IRGC\u2019s Irregular Warfare Headquarters and subjected it to his direct supervision in 1982. This organization was created on the occasion of the holy month of Ramazan and was named after it.<\/p>\n

    According to Al-Mizan News Agency, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr filled the role of the garrison\u2019s commander while Iraj Masjedi was its chief of staff.<\/p>\n

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    A picture of the Ramazan Base\u2019s forces in the early years of creation in Kurdistan<\/p>\n

    After the Iran-Iraq war, the Ramazan Garrison became the Quds Force\u2019s first corps. Its mission was meddling in Iraq and Iraj Masjedi was its commander.<\/p>\n

    The fall of the previous Iraqi government opened a new chapter in the terrorist Quds Force\u2019s activities in Iraq. Masjedi played a decisive role in implementing the regime\u2019s criminal policies in Iraq.<\/p>\n

    Masjedi had secretly gone to Iraqi cities such as Baghdad, Nasiriyah, Basra, Najaf, and Karbala and met with the Quds Force\u2019s Iraqi agents, including Hadi Ameri, Abu-Mehdi Al-Mohandess, Hashem-al Moussavi, Abu Bilal Adib, Hassan-al Sari and another leader of Iran-backed Shiite groups. Through them, Masjedi carried out the regime\u2019s interventionist policies and expanded its influence in Iraq.<\/p>\n

    In January 2007, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed a secret IRGC document containing names and information about 32,000 of the regime\u2019s paid agents in Iraq. These agents were considered members of the Quds Force\u2019s Ramazan Garrison and were on the regime\u2019s payroll for consecutive years.<\/p>\n

    Shortly after the downfall of the previous Iraqi government in 2003, these forces entered Iraq in large organized groups via passages in the Iran-Iraq border, under the direct guidance and command of top Quds Force\u2019s commanders such as Qasem Soleimani, Iraj Masjedi, Ahmad Foruzandeh, and Hamid Taqhavi.<\/p>\n

    Tens of thousands of these agents were stationed in Baghdad and all the other Iraqi cities and provinces, as well as in Iraq\u2019s military and political infrastructure, its political parties, and vital economic and cultural positions. All of these people had both Iranian and Iraqi names, Iranian bank accounts, personal codes, monthly wage rates in Iran\u2019s currency, etc.<\/p>\n

    Abu-Mehdi Mohanddes, the commander of the PMF, is an obvious example. With the Iranian name Jamal Ebrahimi, he is considered one of the Quds Force\u2019s most senior officers. He completed his command-period at Dafoos or AJA University of Command and Staff at the IRGC\u2019s Imam Hussain University. According to the list revealed by the NCRI, he was on the Quds Force\u2019s payroll. His account number in Iran was 50100460275 and his legal code was 3829770.<\/p>\n

    5-The Ramazan Garrison after 2003 and the US invasion <\/strong><\/h3>\n

    On December 1, 2007, the MEK reported: \u201cThe Quds Force\u2019s terrorist intervention in Iraq is done under the command of the Ramazan Garrison. This garrison has 4 headquarters in the Iranian provinces near Iraq, including Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Khuzestan. These garrisons are Nasr, Raad, Zafar and Fajr, and the Quds Force continues its terrorist activities in Iraq through these garrisons. The Iranian regime receives thousands of paramilitary troops from these garrisons in Iran at terrorist military learning camps. Some of these camps are dedicated to the training of the Iraqi paramilitary troops and some of them are for the other terrorists from different countries in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    The role of the Ramazan garrison in terrorist operations is well known. In 2007, the U.S. administration placed the garrison\u2019s deputy commander on its list of terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n

    On January 10, 2008, the Washington Post wrote, \u201cThe administration named Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh, leader of Iran’s Quds Force operations in Iraq, for allegedly directing the assassinations of Iraqis and ordering Iranian intelligence to provoke deeper sectarian violence in Iraq by targeting Shiites and Sunnis.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The report quoted the US Treasury Department as saying, \u201cForuzandeh, who operates out of the Revolutionary Guard Headquarters in the old U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran, allegedly met with Shiite militias in July, calling on them to \u2018continue liquidating all enemies of the Islamic revolution\u2019, including security and intelligence personnel, tribal chiefs, and religious clerics.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Foruzandeh was Masjedi\u2019s deputy at Ramazan garrison.<\/p>\n

    6-Masjedi\u2019s function after the establishment of ISIS rule in 2014 and at the regime\u2019s embassy in Iraq<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    After Nouri-al Maleki attacked the people\u2019s sit-ins in Al-Anbar province in Iraq in 2014, Masjedi, along with other commanders of the Quds Forces entered Iraq and carried out their oppressive plans to slaughter or relocate Sunni residents of this province. In this regard, Hassan Danai-Far, then the regime\u2019s ambassador to Iraq and a Quds Force officer, worked under Masjedi\u2019s supervision.<\/p>\n

    Masjedi played a leading role in forming criminal Iraqi paramilitary groups under the name of the PMF. He described the PMF\u2019s actions as those of a \u201cforce strictly following the supreme leader,\u201d which has to be at his service and \u201cthe sacred causes of the Islamic Republic of Iran.\u201d Different IRGC\u2019s officials, on different occasions, called the PMF \u201cIraq\u2019s Revolutionary Guards\u201d and said, \u201cPopular Mobilization Force is the same as the Basij forces in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Masjedi fully supervised the PMF\u2019s paramilitary troops entering the Sunni zones and massacring their residents under the pretext of fighting ISIS. Human Rights organizations and international media revealed details of these killings.<\/p>\n

    In addition to Iraq, Masjedi played an important role in warmongering and crime in Syria and sending Iraqi paramilitary forces to this country. On December 24, 2016, he said at a memorial for some of the IRGC members killed in Syria, \u201cYesterday, our frontlines were at Arwand river, Shalamche, Mehran and Haj-Imran. Today this frontline is transferred to Damascus, Aleppo, Mosul, and Fallujah.\u201d<\/p>\n

    During the time of Masjedi\u2019s appointment as the Iranian regime\u2019s ambassador to Iraq, many Iraqi political movements and Arab countries in the Persian Gulf called Masjedi as a war criminal. Yet Falih Alfayyadh, the Iraqi government\u2019s National Security advisor, said the Iraqi government agreed with the appointment of Masjedi as ambassador because he \u201cparticipated in the creation of the PMF.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Iraq\u2019s PMF held a meeting called \u201cThanks Iran\u201d on April 24, 2019, and expressed appreciation for the actions of the mullahs\u2019 regime in Iraq. Masjedi participated in this meeting along with some of the IRGC Quds Force\u2019s commanders and PMF leaders including Hadi-Al Ameri, Abu-Mehdi Mohandess and Falih Alfayyadh.<\/p>\n

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    It is clear that the Iranian regime\u2019s ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, is Khamenei\u2019s secret governor of Iraq. And as a top Quds Force commander, he is clearly the regime\u2019s most important person in Iraq. Together, these positions provide him with both the authority and the diplomatic cover to order his agents to massacre the people of Iraq when their public demonstrations present a challenge to Iran\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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