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...

IRAN: IRGC plans to reach Mediterranean coast by capturing Iraqi-Syria ground passage Revolutionary Guards are main cause of war and terror in region The clerical regime has expanded its war mongering and criminal interventions in Syria and is seeking to reach the east coast of the Mediterranean by capturing Iraqi-Syria ground passage. The number of IRGC-affiliated militias in Syria stands at over 100,000. Most of these forces are Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pakistani mercenaries. About a third of them are Syrian militias who have been organized by the IRGC like the Basij in Iran. All of these forces are financed, armed, controlled and commanded by the IRGC. On January 14, 2017, Brigadier General Hussein Yekta, a commander of the Revolutionary Guards and responsible for Khatam's headquarters, announced that the number of Afghans under the command of the IRGC in Syria, organized as part of the Fatemiyoun Division, is 18,000. Afghans living in Iran are forced to go to the...