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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Quds Force Founded 1988 ; 37 years ago (1988) as an independent force Country Iran Type Special operations force Role Extraterritorial operations, Unconventional warfare, Military Intelligence, Black operations Size 5,000 Part of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Engagements Iran–Iraq War Soviet ...
Opposing force Location Campaign Outcome Battle of Herat [1] 12 November 2001: Taliban: Herat: Afghanistan War: Victory Karbala raid (alleged) [2] 20 January 2007: United States: Karbala: Iraq War: Tactical Victory Al-Qusayr offensive [3] 4 April–8 June 2013: Free Syrian Army Al-Nusra Front: Al-Qusayr: Syrian Civil War: Decisive Victory Siege ...
Soreq Nuclear Research Center: 5 MW light water research reactor (supplied by USA, operational 1960) IRR-2 Yavne: Heavy Water Operational 26,000 1963-12-01 Negev Nuclear Research Center: EL-102 uranium/heavy water research reactor, 50-75 MWt (supplied by France, operational 1964, not under IAEA safeguards)
Pages in category "Military operations involving Quds Force" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
A total of over 30,000 scientific users from universities, national laboratories, and technology companies use these facilities to advance their research and development. The staff of experts at each facility who build and operate the associated instruments and work with visiting scientists to mount experiments with them.
Map of nuclear-armed states of the world NPT -designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan) Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel) NATO or CSTO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Belarus) States formerly possessing nuclear ...
Esmail Qaani (also spelled as Ismail Qaani; [2] [better source needed] Persian: اسماعیل قاآنی; born 8 August 1957) [3] is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial operations.
Fueled by high oil prices in the 1970s, Iran sought to purchase large-scale nuclear facilities from Western suppliers in order to develop nuclear power and fuel-cycle facilities with both civilian and potential military applications. [48] In March 1974, the shah established the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). [49]