WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, 14 October 2011, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) held a press conference at the National Press Club. The goal was to reveal the scope of operation and involvement of the Iranian regime's Qods Force in international terrorism, particularly as this deadly force was involved in a foiled plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir. The United States filed a criminal complaint of 11 October 2011 in the Southern District of New York that charges Mansour Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen holding both Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). In October 2007, the U.S. Treasury Department designate...
Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon's first report to Congress on Tehran's military. The report on Iranian military power provides new details on the group known formally as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), the Islamist shock troops deployed around the world to advance Iranian interests. The unit is aligned with terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, North Africa and Latin America, and the report warns that U.S. forces are likely to battle the Iranian paramilitaries in the future.
According to one of the American officials who talked to the Tones, they "were held for more than two years even though they had not been involved in anti-U.S. activities and were functioning as diplomats at the time." Last week - in a striking departure from the Obama Administration's ever-lengthening series of conciliatory ges- tures to the Iranian mullahs - a White House official reaffirmed this, saying that "the detainees in question are members of the Qods Force and the Qods Force is involved deeply in training and supporting Iraqi militant groups that threaten our soldiers and civilians as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians and the long-term stability of Iraq.
Pursuant to the authority contained in 31 U.S.C. 5318A, the Secretary of the Treasury, through his delegate, the Director of FinCEN, finds that reasonable grounds exist for concluding that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern.
A bipartisan House bill aims to push the State Department to adopt a more vigilant posture toward Iran's activities in Latin America. The Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012 would require the State Department to compile a detailed report for Congress on the activities and motivations of the Iranian Republican Guard, its elite Qods Force, Lebanon's Hezbollah organization and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Latin America.
S. hits top Syrians, Iran with sanctions WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration hit three top Syrian officials, Syria's intelligence agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard with sanctions over their brutal crackdown on demonstrators in Syria. The penalties freeze any assets that the officials, including two relatives of President Bashar Assad, Syria's General Intelligence Directorate and the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps might have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with them. U.N. approves probe of Syrian crackdown GENEVA -- Nations agreed Friday to launch a U.N.-led investigation of Syria's bloody crackdown on its uprising, demanding that its government immediately stop the violence, release political prisoners and lift restrictions o...
Qods shock troops are in Venezuela, virtually in our back yard? ("Iran boosts Qods shock troops in Venezuela," Page 1, Wednesday) What's next, someone threatening to bomb New York or Los Angeles if we don't accede to demands? President Obama is like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand - and this is severely compromising our national security. Our enemies are becoming bolder every day, our military is being reined in and emasculated, accommodation and political correctness are running amok, our allies are being deserted, and we are cozying up to dictators, despots, religious fanatics and other assorted zealots around the world. All of this has made us much weaker and far more vulnerable than we were before Mr. Obama became president.
Qods shock troops are in Venezuela, virtually in our back yard? ("Iran boosts Qods shock troops in Venezuela," Page 1, Wednesday) What's next, someone threatening to bomb New York or Los Angeles if we don't accede to demands? President Obama is like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand - and this is severely compromising our national security. Our enemies are becoming bolder every day, our military is being reined in and emasculated, accommodation and political correctness are running amok, our allies are being deserted, and we are cozying up to dictators, despots, religious fanatics and other assorted zealots around the world. All of this has made us much weaker and far more vulnerable than we were before Mr. Obama became president.
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