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...

Quds Force’ extensive record of assassinations, bombings The Quds Force commander Major General, Qassem Suleimani (C), attending a meeting of Revolutionary Guards commanders in Tehran. By Tony Duheaume Al Arabiya, 20 October 2017  - The Quds Force (QF) is the most secretive unit within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard  Corps ,  tasked with the export of the Iranian regime’s own unique brand of Islamic revolution and fundamentalism, which it spreads through its proxies across the globe. Over the years, the QF has perfected the art of  terrorism ,  a tactic it brought into the world in the 1980s, which was then adopted by al-Qaeda in the mid-1990s to carry out “martyrdom operations”. Terrorism and other subversive activities Running a network of thousands of operatives allows the QF to carry out terror attacks across the  globe .  But apart from its involvement in such attacks, its operatives also actively deal with intel...