Iran-Extensive study about IRGC’s role in the middle east

Mr. Struan Stevenson president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association has published an extensive study about IRGC’s role in the middle east and their fomenting of terrorism in 14 Muslim countries in the region.
In fact, after coming new administration in the USA, Obamas appeasement policy has gone and new policies about Iran and the middle east will be written by trump After Obama's appeasement policy there will now be set a harsher policy against Iran from the new administration in Washington. 

Bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut Lebanon on Oct. 23, 1983

The new US government has intensions of blacklisting IRGC as a foreign Terrorist organization. The Pro-regime lobby predicting doom and disaster if IRGC is blacklisted. What the lobby seem to forget is that IRGC is behind several terrorist attacks across the middle east for decades. The IRGC and the Quds force is behind acts of terror both in Syria and Iraq and they are the driving force behind the terrorist attacks in Yemen. Obama was fooled by the Iranian regime but Trump is not so easily fooled, the new administration will take action against the IRGC.  Read the whole article here……


Blacklisting Iran's IRGC does not mean another U.S.-led war

By Struan Stevenson

Following the Obama tenure that allowed Iran to tear the Middle East apart and engulf it in flames, Tehran is now faced with a new administration in the White House that has markedly different intentions. The new U.S. administration is floating a proposal to blacklist the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.

And suddenly we are witnessing a shrill chorus from known members of the pro-Iranian appeasement lobby predicting doom and disaster if we blacklist the IRGC. Their main argument seems to involve the possibility of the IRGC taking revenge by targeting U.S. interests and allies across the Middle East. In other words, they may commit terrorist attacks in the West so we'd better not list them as terrorists! What strangely seems to have been forgotten is the fact that the IRGC has for decades been carrying out terrorist attacks across the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.
The IRGC and the Quds Force, their organization responsible for extraterritorial operations, are behind most of the brutal Shi'ite militias rampaging through the predominantly Sunni provinces of Iraq, massacring families and leveling cities in the name of the war against the Islamic State. It is a great irony that Iran exploited the IS campaign as an opportunity to carry out their genocidal crusade against the Sunnis, at the same time fooling former U.S. President Barack Obama into regarding Iran as an ally, even coaxing the United States into providing vital air support. There are even disturbing reports that the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Units, dubbed as Iraq's version of the IRGC, have been surreptitiously providing arms to IS.
Over the past six years, the world has witnessed in horror how the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has massacred his own people, while enjoying unlimited financial and military support from Iran. It was the Iranian regime's backing for Assad and for the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, two corrupt dictators who repressed their own people and particularly the Sunni communities in those two countries, that resulted in the rise of IS in the region. Thanks to Tehran, IS grew and became a threat to the whole world, creating the largest refugee crisis in modern history.
The Iranian regime, its IRGC and Basij militias have attacked America and its allies for many decades. The Iranian mullahs began targeting U.S. interests in 1980, less than a year after they came to power, in 1980 by seizing 52 Americans in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and holding them hostage for 444 days. While it is common knowledge that Lebanese Hezbollah is funded by Tehran, it should also be remembered that in 1983 Iran and Hezbollah masterminded and carried out a truck bombing that killed 240 U.S. Marines in Lebanon; the Islamic jihadist car bomb attack destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, leaving 63 dead, 17 of whom were Americans. The attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City left six dead, 13 days before Christmas that same year. In September 1984, Lebanese Hezbollah again staged a car bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, this time killing 24 people.
In June 1996, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia were the target of a massive truck bombing using 5,000 pounds of explosives. Nineteen U.S. airmen lost their lives and many more were injured. Former FBI director Louis Freeh has repeatedly stated that investigations show Iran was behind this attack. In June 1998, Lebanese Hezbollah again attacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, this time firing rocket-propelled grenades. Fortunately, no one was killed.
Iran's campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq is well documented. Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a recent hearing that Iran is responsible for the death of more than 500 Americans. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has stated that Iran is the main state sponsor of international terror.
Even Obama's controversial deal that many boasted would tame Iran's nuclear program has brought no such change. Iran's Jan. 29 ballistic missile test was a flagrant violation of the deal, prompting the Trump administration to reintroduce a series of tough sanctions, signaling an immediate step-change with Obama's appeasement policy. It now emerges, according to a shocking report first made public by The Washington Free Beacon, that the Obama administration gave unprecedented access to the White House for teams of known pro-Iran lobbyists.
For far too long, Iran and the IRGC have taken advantage of the West's appeasement policy, not only engulfing the entire Middle East in flames, but also oppressing the Iranian people through atrocious and repeated human rights violations. Blacklisting the IRGC is long overdue and will be a first and necessary step in actually curbing Iranian atrocities.

Iran growing network to train foreign terrorists, dissident group says

Iran’s hard-line Islamic regime has escalated it's overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime’s largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran issued its intelligence report specifying the camps’ locations and the countries represented.
The council’s largest member is the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK). It boasts an extensive spy network inside the mullah-run government, including the all-powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its special forces wing, the Quds force, and has a track record of exposing clandestine parts of the Iranian national security apparatus.
The Quds force played a significant role in the Iraq War by training Iraqi Shiites on how to make bombs that killed scores of American troops. The Quds force is now directing thousands of Iraqi Shiite militia members in Iraq, some of whom have gone to Syria to fight for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The U.S. calls Iran the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. However, neither the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps nor the Quds force is on the State Department’s list of designated terrorist organisations. The Treasury Department in 2007 designated the Quds force as a material supporter of terrorism, but National Council of Resistance of Iran officials say the U.S. government should go much further.
“The Iranian resistance has emphasised on countless occasions that the source and the epicentre of terrorism, fundamentalism and regional meddling is the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran,” said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the council’s Washington office.
The council said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has approved a directorate inside the Quds force “in order to expand its training of foreign mercenaries as part of the regime’s strategy to step up its meddling abroad, including in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”
“The camps have been divided based on the nationality of the trainees and the type of training,” the council said. “Both terrorist training and also military training for militias are provided, enabling them to better infiltrate and advance the regime’s regional objectives.”
“Every month, hundreds of forces from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Lebanon — countries where the regime is involved in front-line combat — receive military training and are subsequently dispatched to wage terrorism and war,” the statement said.
In Lebanon, Iran supports, arms and finances Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that is also fighting for Mr. Assad in Syria.
Beyond the Middle East
Some Quds graduates have shown up outside the region and on the U.S. doorstep in Latin America.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testified before Congress, when he commanded U.S. Southern Command as a Marine Corps general, that Hezbollah operatives had arrived in South America and that Iran had opened scores of Islamic centers there.
Critics of the Obama administration’s negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, which freed up billions of dollars in frozen assets, say the concessions have failed to temper Tehran’s bellicosity or its desire to exert hegemony over the Persian Gulf region.
The council’s report says the Quds force oversees 14 training bases from operation headquarters at the sprawling Imam Ali airbase. The commander reports directly to the Quds commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who has been directing operations in Iraq and in Syria.
The largest number of enlistees at Imam Ali are from Syria. They learn how to fire heavy weapons and missiles and to operate drones.
The council listed what it said were the locations and secret code numbers for other camps that conduct training in urban warfare, such as riding motorcycles in terrorist attacks. The council’s report, using satellite imagery, locates each camp on a map of Iran.
The Shahriar Garrison in south-west Tehran, for example, specialises in training Afghan mercenaries, who are then sent to Syria.
At the press briefing, Mr. Jafarzadeh, the council official, called on the Trump administration to add the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds force to the State Department’s terrorist list.
“The IRGC is the backbone of the apparatus established to preserve the dictatorship, which itself rests on three pillars,” he said. “The first is suppression within Iran. The second is the export of terrorism and fundamentalism beyond Iran’s borders. And the third is the program to manufacture a nuclear bomb and nuclear-capable missiles to threaten other countries.”
MEK was once on the State Department’s terrorist list, for attacks it was accused of carrying out in the 1970s and 1980s, first against the government of the shah of Iran and later against the clerics who overthrew him and now dominate the regime in Tehran. The group fought a long, battle to get the designation lifted, and the Obama administration delisted MEK in 2012 after attesting that it had not been involved in terrorism for over a decade.