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The individuals sanctioned include the head of the Basij Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); the Commander in Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard; the Commander of the Special Units of the Iranian police force; the Commander in Chief of the IRGC Ground Forces; the Commander in Chief of the Iranian police force; the IRGC Commander of Khuzestan Province Vali Asr Corps; the former… [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 11:33 am by Victoria Gallegos
  An Iranian ship believed to be used for intelligence collection by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, called the Saviz, was attacked in the Red Sea yesterday, writes the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 7:01 am by Bilal Saab
  Since its inception in the early 1980s, Hezbollah has been a thorn in the side of the United States, constantly undermining its interests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region in coordination with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 5:01 am by Sonja Swanbeck
However, all of the sites published stories generated by the International Union of Virtual Media (IUVM) and the Islamic Radios and Televisions Union (IRTVU)—two media operations sanctioned by the Treasury Department in October for being controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—which was itself controversially designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in April 2019. [read post]
” The Department maintains that the “crisis cell” headed by al-Fayyadh to quell the protestors was supported by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force (IRGC-QF). [read post]
Zam was abducted while visiting Iraq by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in October 2019, apparently with assistance from Iraqi authorities. [read post]
Fakhrizadeh was a former officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a physics professor who was widely seen outside Iran as the architect of the country’s nuclear weapons programme. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 11:23 am by Anna Salvatore
Paul Nakasone, who leads the military’s cyber command, said that members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sent threatening emails to Americans and created a video to decrease confidence in the electoral process. [read post]
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated them as counterterrorism authorities for their financial support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). [read post]
” Those entities are: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC-Qods Force , Bayan Rasaneh Gostar (Bayan Gostar), the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union and the International Union of Virtual Media Institute. [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 7:01 am by Michael Eisenstadt
Daniel Byman *** A popular narrative to emerge during the past year of Iran-U.S. tensions is that on several occasions—particularly after the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in January—Iran and the United States were on the “brink of war. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 1:16 pm by Anna Salvatore
According to the press release, the hackers were part of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and sought to steal intellectual property from companies worldwide. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 5:14 am by Ali Wyne, Colin P. Clarke
Commenters raised similar concerns after the January 2020 assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander Maj. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 7:01 am by Sara Plana
In December, in response to attacks by Kataib Hezbollah (KH), an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq, on coalition bases, the Trump administration retaliated by bombing some of KH’s compounds in the country. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 10:58 am by Tom Smith
But the Fars news agency, which is close to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) quoted what it called "an informed source" as saying a gas storage tank had exploded near a military base. [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]
25 Feb 2020, 12:37 pm by Scott R. Anderson
Menendez also rebutted several of the legal rationales presented by the Trump administration for the Jan. 2 killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, including the suggestion that such action could be justified by the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 11:54 am by Geoffrey S. Corn, Chris Jenks
Most commentators have similarly focused on jus ad bellum questions: whether the strike met the requisite standards of imminence, necessity and proportionality and whether Soleimani⁠—the commander of the Quds Force, a military unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specializing in unconventional warfare⁠—qualified as a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:24 am by Gene Takagi
” Washington Post “The operation that took out General Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, propelled the United States to the precipice of war with Iran and plunged the world into seven days of roiling uncertainty. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 6:08 am by Michael J. Glennon
Soleimani was not a private citizen: He was a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force. [read post]