{"id":329336,"date":"2025-03-09T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=329336"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:12:00","slug":"iran-news-former-irgc-minister-admits-to-global-assassinations-and-terrorism-in-a-chilling-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-news-former-irgc-minister-admits-to-global-assassinations-and-terrorism-in-a-chilling-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: Former IRGC Minister Admits to Global Assassinations and Terrorism in a Chilling Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_329337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329337\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025.jpg\" alt=\"On March 8, 2025, the state-run Dideban Iran published an interview with former IRGC Minister Mohsen Rafiqdoust, where he openly admitted to orchestrating assassinations worldwide\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025-745x420.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/iran-mohsen-rafiqdoust-terror-admissions-08032025-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On March 8, 2025, the state-run Dideban Iran published an interview with former IRGC Minister Mohsen Rafiqdoust, where he openly admitted to orchestrating assassinations worldwide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"646\">In a shocking admission, Mohsen Rafiqdoust, the former minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and ex-head of the Mostazafan Foundation, openly confessed to his direct role in orchestrating assassinations and terrorist operations worldwide. Speaking in an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aWfDgAwI9xU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview that was published<\/a> on March 8, Rafiqdoust acknowledged that he personally commanded the killings of opposition figures abroad and coordinated acts of terror on behalf of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"1160\">His remarks, which reinforce years of evidence presented by Iranian opposition groups about the regime\u2019s international terror network, confirm that Tehran systematically deployed hired killers and mercenaries to eliminate dissidents. \u201cThe Basque separatists in Spain carried out these assassinations for us. We provided them with money, and they executed the operations,\u201d he admitted, exposing how the regime outsourced political assassinations to terrorist proxies while maintaining plausible deniability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1826\">Rafiqdoust boasted about direct Iranian involvement in the killings of<a href=\"https:\/\/ge.usembassy.gov\/the-iranian-regimes-40-year-campaign-of-assassinations\/#:~:text=1991,death%2C%20according%20to%20news%20reports.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Shapour Bakhtiar<\/a>, Gholam-Ali Oveissi, Shahriar Shafiq, and Fereydoun Farrokhzad, among others. He also detailed how the regime threatened Western governments to secure the release of its terrorists, describing how he personally blackmailed the French foreign minister into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/07\/28\/world\/france-releases-5-terrorists-and-sends-them-to-teheran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">releasing Anis Naccache<\/a>, the failed assassin of Bakhtiar. \u201cI told them that if he was not freed in two weeks, they should expect an embassy bombing or a plane hijacking. They should not complain when it happens,\u201d Rafiqdoust admitted, laying bare the regime\u2019s history of hostage-taking and terror diplomacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The timing and intention of a former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IRGC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IRGC<\/a> commander admitting to the Guards&#39; role in the 1979 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/American?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#American<\/a> embassy takeover have left observers of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s developments pondering over a truly complex calamity whose consequences are still effective today.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GHHejwBU6x\">https:\/\/t.co\/GHHejwBU6x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1693924471286223122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1882\" data-end=\"2553\">These admissions align with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/what-to-make-of-recent-remarks-from-former-irgc-commander-on-us-embassy-hostage-taking\/\">his previous statements<\/a> about the IRGC\u2019s involvement in the US Embassy hostage crisis in 1979, which the regime has long sought to downplay as a spontaneous student-led act. In an earlier interview on August 16, 2023, Rafiqdoust disclosed that he personally provided logistical support for the embassy seizure and was briefed by high-ranking officials on the plan ahead of time. This revelation obliterates the false narrative that the takeover was independent of the regime\u2019s leadership, proving once again that it was an orchestrated act of aggression to consolidate Khomeini\u2019s rule and lay the groundwork for Iran\u2019s global hostage-taking policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"166\">In 1991, Mohsen Rafighdoost openly admitted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/readingroom\/docs\/CIA-RDP91-00587R000100200013-7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iranian regime\u2019s role<\/a> in attacks against U.S. forces, specifically the 1983 Beirut bombing. He stated: \u201cIn the victory of the revolution in Lebanon and many other places in the world, America has felt the sting of our blow. It knows that the explosives combined with ideology, which sent 400 U.S. Marines to hell in one strike, came from Iran. Both the TNT and the ideology originated in Iran. This is very clear to America, which is why it is now helpless in the Persian Gulf.\u201d (<em data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"560\">Resalat Daily<\/em>, July 20, 1991).<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2555\" data-end=\"2599\">A Regime That Thrives on Terrorism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2601\" data-end=\"3057\">Rafiqdoust\u2019s brazen confessions do not stem from regret or repentance\u2014they are a calculated display of intimidation aimed at reminding the world that the Iranian regime has a long history of eliminating opponents and will continue to do so. His remarks serve as a testament to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/an-overview-of-irans-history-of-hostage-taking-and-how-western-appeasement-has-fueled-tehrans-terrorism\/\">countless disclosures<\/a> by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have already revealed: the Iranian regime is built on systematic terrorism, assassination, and hostage diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3059\" data-end=\"3542\">Decades of investigations, intelligence reports, and exposures by the Iranian Resistance have demonstrated how the regime\u2019s terror apparatus spans the world. Tehran\u2019s deep-rooted strategy of extrajudicial killings, abductions, and bomb plots has been used to silence critics and crush opposition abroad. The clerical regime has repeatedly proven that it is not just a rogue state\u2014it is a criminal enterprise that operates with impunity on an international scale.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THREAD<br \/>For more than four decades, the clerical regime in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> has consistently blackmailed other nations and considered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/extremism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#extremism<\/a> as &quot;leverage&quot;. 1\/9<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ieaaOkZb6y\">https:\/\/t.co\/ieaaOkZb6y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W9u5BJHXqs\">pic.twitter.com\/W9u5BJHXqs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1567118800083980295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3544\" data-end=\"3600\">A Test for the International Community<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3602\" data-end=\"3999\">The significance of these remarks cannot be overstated. The Iranian regime is no longer hiding its crimes\u2014it is flaunting them. Rafiqdoust\u2019s confessions are not just the ramblings of a retired official; they reflect Tehran\u2019s ongoing policy of state-sponsored terrorism. This is not history\u2014it is an ongoing, systematic campaign of terror, emboldened by decades of international inaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4001\" data-end=\"4308\">Such a brazen posture demands fierce and immediate action. The time for mild condemnations and symbolic sanctions is over. The world must take decisive steps to dismantle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-report\/timeline-of-irans-opposition-exposing-the-regimes-terror-networks-ballistic-missile-projects\/\">regime\u2019s global terror network,<\/a> hold its officials accountable, and enact severe punitive measures against its leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4310\" data-end=\"4631\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Failure to act will only embolden the regime, fuel more assassinations, hostage-takings, and bombings, and send a message that Iran\u2019s ruling theocracy can murder with impunity. It is time for the international community to put an end to the clerical regime\u2019s reign of terror\u2014before its next victim is claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking admission, Mohsen Rafiqdoust, the former minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and ex-head of the Mostazafan Foundation, openly confessed to his direct role in orchestrating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":329337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[205,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-329336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-irgc","9":"tag-iran-terrorism"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran News: Former 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