Iranian authorities terrify the people of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL/ISIS) while they are the ISIS godfather.
"Basiji, IRGC, you are our ISIS," youths chanted during #IranProtests in January 2020.
https://www.iranfocus.com/en/wpen/terrorism/31206-iranian-regime-is-godfather-of-isis/
"Basiji, IRGC, you are our ISIS," youths chanted during #IranProtests in January 2020.
https://www.iranfocus.com/en/wpen/terrorism/31206-iranian-regime-is-godfather-of-isis/
Iranian authorities hosted high-ranking members of al-Qaeda for many years. In August 2020, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, the group's #2 figure, was killed in Tehran.
by @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html
by @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html
#Tehran was cooperating with al-Qaeda to conduct terror attacks across the globe.
by @Iran_Focus https://www.iranfocus.com/en/terrorism/46107-western-policymakers-ignore-iran-al-qaeda-relationship-at-their-peril/
by @Iran_Focus https://www.iranfocus.com/en/terrorism/46107-western-policymakers-ignore-iran-al-qaeda-relationship-at-their-peril/
The Quds Force was also behind the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012.
by @nypost https://nypost.com/2020/08/22/why-wont-the-us-government-admit-iran-funded-the-benghazi-attacks/
by @nypost https://nypost.com/2020/08/22/why-wont-the-us-government-admit-iran-funded-the-benghazi-attacks/
Iranian officials had also used Lebanese #Hezbollah to export drug cargos to Europe.
by @politico https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
by @politico https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
Shadowy commander, as @NewYorker had described #QassemSoleimani, was the brain of many terror attacks in different countries.
On behalf of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Soleimani had spent #Iran's national assets to fund proxies.
by @IranNewsUpdate1 https://irannewsupdate.com/news/terrorism/who-was-qassem-soleimani-the-quds-force-commander/
On behalf of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Soleimani had spent #Iran's national assets to fund proxies.
by @IranNewsUpdate1 https://irannewsupdate.com/news/terrorism/who-was-qassem-soleimani-the-quds-force-commander/