ANALYSIS: Regional terror make IRGC expulsion more imperative 10/23/2017 8:25:22 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Terrorist By Shahin Gobadi Al Arabiya, 23 October 2017 -The role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the attack on Kirkuk and various cities in Iraqi Kurdistan, which displaced a large number of people in the area, once again highlighted the IRGC's destructive role in regional crises. The Peshmarga Force commander said in Kirkuk on Sunday, October 15, 'The Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) are not the only ones who attack us. We have 100% accurate knowledge that the IRGC are also present among them.' Qassem Soleimani, the head of the IRGC’s terrorist Quds Force, was plotting in Sulaimaniyah, Baghdad, and other areas of Iraq in the days immediately before the attacks. Former US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted on October 11, 'Qud...

Trump Excludes Iraq’s Popular Mobilization from his Iran Strategy 10/22/2017 7:00:38 PM Iraqs Popular Mobilization Force commits criminal activities in Kurdish regions Huffington Post, Oct. 22, 2017  - Trump’s exclusion of Iraq from his enumeration of Iranian violations in the Arab world and the IRGC roles there, in Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon, has interesting implications. Iraq seems to occupy a special position for President Trump. The prime minister in Baghdad, Haider al-Abadi, may have earned the trust of the US president, and even a preferential position with regard to US support, possibly at the expense of the Kurds, Washington’s erstwhile long-standing ally. Indeed, Trump has overlooked the participation of the Popular Mobilization forces in battles alongside the federal Iraqi forces to retake Kirkuk from the Kurds and other Kurdish-claimed regions in northern Iraq, bearing in mind that the US Treasury Department has now targeted the IRGC as a suppo...