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The Quds Force's commander, General Qasem Soleimani, was involved with both the planning as well as the execution of the operation to expel ISIL from Tikrit. In 2014, Quds Force was deployed into Iraq to lead Iranian action against ISIL. Iran sent three Quds Force battalions to help the Iraqi government repel ISIL's 2014 Northern Iraq offensive ...
The Nuclear Protection Corps (Persian: سپاه حفاظت و امنیت هستهای) is a unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tasked to protect the Iranian nuclear facilities. It was announced on March 16, 2022, after several acts of sabotage against these sites.
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.
DUBAI (Reuters) -The top commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, is in "good health", the force's deputy commander Iraj Masjedi said on Monday, after two Iranian security sources told ...
Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons. Its foreign ministry said on Saturday that Tehran's nuclear programme is under continuous supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic ...
Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy ...
The Israeli think tank also claimed the Quds Force, also known as the Jerusalem Force, was reported by The Telegraph to control a company that "specializes in anti-tank mines and operates under the aegis of the IRGC’s al-Quds or Jerusalem Force" and was responsible for making bombs that killed American and British soldiers in Iraq. [51]
North Korea’s nuclear program serves as a compelling case study: a regime once vulnerable to external threats has secured itself against invasion through nuclear deterrence. Iran’s leadership ...