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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force is involved in destructive activities across the region  Two international experts explained the threats and terrorist activities posed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ) Quds force across the Middle East. Seth G. Jones chair, director, and senior advisor to the Transnational Threats Project explained how the IRGC Quds Force is acting as the Iranian regime extraterritorial arm. “The IRGC Quds Force is Iran’s primary military actor in the Middle East. It competes with countries like the United States by training, advising, and equipping sub-state forces, including Shiite militias in  Iraq , Hezbollah in  Lebanon ,” Jones said in an interview “Iran’s goal with the base like in Lebanon is to improve the capabilities of its local actors,” Jones added.  He continued to say that Iran has such basis in  Syria , too, with the aim of bringing these actors from all over these locations for training. He also e...

The commander of IRGC’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, said that the IRGC “had been working around the clock to arm the PMU” after its establishment. Al-Arabiya, 21 July 2017  - “I announce from here the end and failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Da’esh (ISIS) announced from Mosul,” the Iraqi Prime Minister declared on state television recently. Following a three-year long blitz, Iraqi forces with the support of the international coalition, have now defeated ISIS in Mosul, despite all challenges and sectarian disputes. But the defeat of ISIS has created a vacuum and there are some hard questions about Shi’ite militias such as the People Mobilization Units (PMU) that must be answered. This is particularly important because the PMU was established because of the sectarian divisions in Iraq. But what role will the PMU play in the future of Iraq? Who will control and command the PMU? It is a known fact that some...

Gen. Qasem Suleimani seen in Syria IRAN, JULY 12, 2017 --  Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian terrorist Quds force, the cross-border wing of the IRGC, said: 'Sometimes we use diplomacy to solve some specific problems which the world also insist on that. But other times diplomacy wouldn't work, particularly where there are difficult problems.' Speaking at a ceremony marking the death of an IRGC commander Shaaban Nasiri, killed during Mosul operation, Gen. Suleimani said no diplomatic effort can do what such men are doing in the battleground. Shaaban Nasiri was the co-founder of the terrorist Bard brigade in Iraq and was killed during the Mosul operation on May 26, 2017. The Badr brigade is currently part of the Shiite militias called 'Hashd-al Shaabi' or the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), which is entirely affiliated with the Quds and IRGC. According to American intelligence, the PMF is involved in killing and massacring the Sunni popu...