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Soleimani, the Iranian major general and commander of the Quds Force (a wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), was killed by a drone strike ordered by Trump on January 3, 2020. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 1:54 pm by Lev Sugarman
District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that a former Air Force counterintelligence specialist provided classified intelligence material to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 1:38 pm by John Jascob
According to the DOJ, teams from two Iran-based private computer security firms linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an intelligence arm of the Iranian government, remotely enlisted servers in the U.S. and elsewhere that ran outdated software to form a collection of servers called a “botnet” through which the teams could launch cyber attacks on U.S. financial firms.The Iranian teams allegedly perpetrated two overlapping waves of… [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm by Mike Scarcella
Arbabsiar allegedly worked with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 6:46 am by Daniel Byman
Tehran considers the Syrian regime a strategic ally and sent several thousand of its own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces to fight when the regime looked near collapse in the early years of the civil war. [read post]
16 Aug 2022, 6:42 am by Matthew Levitt
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Poursafi reportedly agreed to pay $300,000 to have Bolton murdered, and offered $1 million for another murder-for-hire plot—this one apparently targeting former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
An Iranian withdrawal would still leave behind a network of proxy militias molded and supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps over the past seven years that would allow Tehran to continue to project power deep into the Levant. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 10:31 am by Lev Sugarman
Air Force counterintelligence officer who defected to Iran and shared intelligence material with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the New York Times reports. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 5:56 am by Cathryn Grothe
As the current protests erupted, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the military, called on the judiciary to prosecute those who spread “rumors” amid the ongoing unrest. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 8:33 am by Bruce Riedel
In the 1990s it was a stronghold of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Damascus. [read post]
14 May 2019, 6:08 am by Tyler Cullis, Amir Handjani
Many aspects of it are controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has recently been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Department. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 9:33 am by Elliot Setzer
In other Iran news, hardliners in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have recently clashed with the government over the response to the novel coronavirus, according to the Journal. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 9:30 am by Miles Kahler
A third consequence of extended or intensified sanctions is a “friends get benefits” effect:  sanctions-induced scarcity produces rents that flow to the politically connected—hardline hawks in the Revolutionary Guards Corps and others with political clout. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 8:02 am by Dror Michman, Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
Israel has been sending messages through all possible channels to Iran, Syria, and Russia that it will not tolerate any kind of Iranian presence and activity along its Syrian border, be it Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) activity or through proxy militias such as Hezbollah. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 1:01 pm by Hannah Kris
  Shortly after President Trump announced he would not pursue escalation against Iran following non-lethal missile attacks against bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps threatened “harsher revenge” on the United States for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, reports the New York Times. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 1:51 pm by Benjamin Pollard
The Justice Department charged a member of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with an attempted plot to murder former National Security Adviser John Bolton. [read post]
26 Aug 2019, 11:35 am by Jacob Schulz
An Israeli military spokesperson claimed that the Isreali military successfully intervened to stop the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from sending out “killer drones” from Syria to attack various targets in northern Israel, Reuters details. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 3:36 am
Rolph asked Clinton to explain her Senate vote Wednesday for a resolution urging the Bush administration to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 4:30 am by Steve Slick
 Similarly, “The Shia Crescent” (Chapter 3) describes inattention by the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as Iranian-backed militias gained influence in southern Iraq, and also provides a critical evaluation of the Bush administration’s excessive caution in restraining U.S. commanders who were anxious to impose a cost on Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces that were training “special groups” to… [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 7:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
In June, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Israeli jets penetrated deep into Syria to strike Iranian-backed pro-regime militias on the Syria-Iraq border believed to be trafficking weapons in coordination with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. [read post]