IRAN PLAYED SECRET ROLE IN LAND GRAB FROM U.S. ALLY 10/19/2017 7:42:47 PM Ceremony during raising the Iraqi flag at a government building in Kurdish region NBC News, Oct. 18, 2017  - Kurdish officials point to a Facebook video of a ceremony in which the Iraqi flag was raised at a government building. It shows two controversial figures on hand: Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Badr Organization, an Iranian-backed political party; and Abu Mahdi Soleimani. who has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for acts of violence against Americans, and is considered a close adviser to Soleimani. Three days before that flag raising, on Oct. 13, Trump announced his new Iran strategy. “Our policy is based on a clear-eyed assessment of the Iranian dictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuing aggression in the Middle East and all around the world,” Trump said. Trump also announced new sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). The timing of the Ki...

New intelligence report reveals plot of IRGC mercenaries in Syria A report by the Paris-based Iranian opposition has revealed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are amassing Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pakistani mercenaries in Syria to control a pivotal road between Iraq and Syria that reaches the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The report published on Wednesday by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) comes as the United States is reviewing the inclusion of the IRGC and associated militias on the US terrorism list. The IRGC has been deploying its militias in Syria at numbers estimated to be more than 100,000 members. The foreign fighters are deployed as mercenaries in clear violation of international norms and laws, the report stated. Afghan militia flights The report shows that the IRGC conducts weekly flights from Tehran via Mahan Air and Iran Air to Damascus to transport roughly 2,000 Afghan mercenaries every Tuesday. The men are registered as ...

New intelligence report reveals plot of IRGC mercenaries in Syria Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Thursday, 12 October 2017 Text size  A   A   A A report by the Paris-based Iranian opposition has revealed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are amassing Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pakistani mercenaries in Syria to control a pivotal road between Iraq and Syria that reaches the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The report published on Wednesday by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) comes as the United States is reviewing the inclusion of the IRGC and associated militias on the US terrorism list. The IRGC has been deploying its militias in Syria at numbers estimated to be more than 100,000 members. The foreign fighters are deployed as mercenaries in clear violation of international norms and laws, the report stated. Afghan militia flights The report shows that the IRGC conducts weekly flights from Tehran via Mahan ...