ANALYSIS: History of the IRGC’s grooming of top al-Qaeda members 10/25/2017 9:30:25 AM   facebook Google+ ► Print US Intelligence has for some time believed most of the surviving al-Qaeda leadership had been based in Iran at some point. (File photo) By Tony Duheaume Al Arabiya, 25 October 2017  - There will always be those that ridicule the idea of a pact between Iran and al-Qaeda, due to the Shiite/Sunni divide, but it has been proven many times over, how Shiite Iran will side with radical Sunni groups such as al-Qaeda (AQ) when it comes to fighting a common enemy, and al-Qaeda will do the same, especially when the target is their most hated enemy the US. The belief by certain commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is if they could persuade al-Qaeda to come on side in any future conflict with the West, with the offer of financial assistance and weapons, as well as the use of the IRGC’s vast terror and sleeper...