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Quds Force

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CommanderEsmail Ghaani
Coordinator Deputy CommanderAhmad Sabouri
Founded1980
Headquarters locationTehran, Iran
Branch Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Engagements Iran–Iraq War
Syrian civil war
1982 Lebanon War
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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The Quds Force is a unit in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations.

Kidnap alert heightens Iran-Israel shadow war fears

Kidnap alert heightens Iran-Israel shadow war fears
Jun 25,2022 3:35 am

... " The head of Iran s elite Quds Force - the Revolutionary Guards overseas operations arm - Gen Esmail Qaani, declared that Iran will continue to back any anti-US or anti-Israel movement anywhere after the US, to the shock of much of the world, killed his predecessor Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020...

Rwanda asylum: Iranian policeman who defied orders says he fears for his life

Rwanda asylum: Iranian policeman who defied orders says he fears for his life
Jun 10,2022 6:20 pm

... The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is Iran s most powerful military force and runs a shadowy overseas operations arm called the Quds Force...

Colonel in Iran Revolutionary Guard assassinated

Colonel in Iran Revolutionary Guard assassinated
May 23,2022 3:40 am

... Colonel Khodai was a senior member of the elite Quds Force, a shadowy external arm of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) that carries out operations abroad...

Israel's Mossad suspected of high-level Iran penetration

Israel's Mossad suspected of high-level Iran penetration
Feb 6,2022 3:33 am

... A former intelligence officer for the IRGC Quds Force (its overseas operations arm) has told the BBC foreign agencies have gathered evidence against a number of Iranian ambassadors and IRGC commanders...

Families seek justice for Iran plane crash victims

Families seek justice for Iran plane crash victims
Jan 8,2022 3:58 am

... Currently, only the IRGC s Quds Force - which manages its clandestine operations abroad - is included...

Week in pictures: 4 - 10. January 2020

Week in pictures: 4 - 10. January 2020
Feb 16,2020 10:00 am

... A drone photo shows thousands of Iranians attending the funeral of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran s Quds Force in Tehran...

Qasem Soleimani: Why his killing is good news for jihadists

Qasem Soleimani: Why his killing is good news for jihadists
Feb 16,2020 9:58 am

...Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who died in a strike killed Qasem Soleimani The Islamic state (IS) group welcomes the fact that the death of the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force...

Crisis in Iran: Commander says more air strikes were planned against US

Crisis in Iran: Commander says more air strikes were planned against US
Feb 16,2020 9:57 am

... As head of the Revolutionary guard of the elite Quds Force, he was an architect of Iran policy in the Middle East...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: man killed for their case to Iran's top general

Feb 16,2020 9:56 am

The man, he is a British-Iranian woman, has said, in prison in Iran, worried about what could mean the death of the country's top General, that for your case.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from London, was detained for More Than three years over the spying allegations, which it denies.

Mr Ratcliffe said, escalating tensions after The Killing of Qasem Soleimani , could make matters worse for his wife.

the plans for a meeting with the Prime Minister , Boris Johnson , to discuss your case.

"It is a concern, on a selfish level, what does this mean for Nazanin's case," he said.

"There's always a worry that things could get even worse. "

Mr Ratcliffe, whose parents-in-law lives in Iran, said he is concerned about the implications for the region as a whole.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parole rejected, shortly before Christmas, he said, noting that they are "low", when he spoke with her about Christmas and New Year .

"We are of course hopeful, at least for the moment. We felt there was No Good news for a while, and I was always pushing to do the Prime Minister and the government, more and a lot more assertive," he said.

"In some ways, the do still of the opinion to do The Right thing - But it is absolutely the wrong time. "

The couple's British-born daughter Gabriella, who had been living with her grandparents in Tehran ,

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a three-day release from prison in August, 2018

Mr Ratcliffe's concern comes

Iran's Supreme leader has vowed "severe revenge" on those responsible for the death of Soleimani, who was killed by an Air Strike on the airport of Baghdad early on Friday ordered by US President Donald Trump .

The 62-year-old headed Iran's Middle East operations as head of The Elite Quds Force . Mr Trump Soleimani or killed thousands of Americans have been told wounded.

U.S. officials have 3,000 additional troops in the Middle East as a precautionary measure, it said.

Mr Ratcliffe said it was found, "the time has come to bring a way that an improvement in relations" between The West and Iran, his wife at home.

he said he received a letter from Mr. Johnson, asked shortly after The General elections last month for a meeting, But a date was not specified.

While he was Minister of foreign Affairs, Mr Johnson, incorrectly, that Ms. Zaghari-had Ratcliffe, Iran, was for the training of journalists.

"We have been very clear in public, that I said the feeling that he owes us, and he must do what he can to bring to bring Nazanin home and the [home], they would more Ratcliffe for similar reasons," Mr.

He added: "we are on the cliff of very dark times, it can only help the positive gestures to be Made . "



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Source of news: bbc.com

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