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New Statesman
February 26, 2018
Some wilder estimates have gone as high as 30,000 or even more; others, more sensibly, as low as 2,000. The point is .... Before the fall of Hussein in 2003, Iran had supported Shia opposition group the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), which was founded in exile in Iran in 1982.
Rudaw
February 19, 2018
Iraqi President Fuad Masum (L) is shaking hands with Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution in Baghdad on February 18, ... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A high ranking Iranian official expressed Tehran's readiness in a meeting with the president of Iraq to do its best to mendÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
Tactical advisers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are deployed at military bases across Syria. Its commanders ... Iran continues to train and equip fighters while strengthening ties with allies in Iraq and Lebanon, in hopes of building a united front in the event of a new war. “The ultimate goal isÃÂ ...
PRESSTV
February 17, 2018
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is on a visit to India this week, repaying a trip by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tehran in 2016. ... the Ba'athist regime in Iraq due to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait, relations between Iran and India improved dramatically and in 2001 reached a high point whenÃÂ ...
mySanAntonio.com
February 11, 2018
Decades after the Islamic Revolution, Tehran has had successes abroad after years of turmoil. Iran helped push back the Islamic State group in Iraq and assisted embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad in regaining strategic ground in his country's long civil war. At home, however, the country's economyÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
February 5, 2018
In May, 2017 Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq/Syria border in the company of an Iran-backed Shia militia. A spokesman for the militia, called the Popular Mobilization Forces, was quoted inÃÂ ...
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (blog)
January 29, 2018
Numerous high-profile generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have also been killed, and in September, thousands of Iranians attended the funeral of Mohsen ... The rise of IS in Iraq and Syria provided the Iranian government an opportunity to increase its influence in those countries.
Arab News
December 31, 1999
Despite the high costs involved, Tehran's political opportunism is serving the Iranian regime ideologically, economically, geopolitically and strategically. ... Thanks to the Syrian conflict, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its special operations unit known as the Quds Force are also enjoying aÃÂ ...
Qantara.de
December 31, 1999
The first victim of a series of high-profile assassinations was Abdul Majid al-Khoei, the son of the Shia Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. He was ... On 29 August of the same year, the chairman of the former Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, was killed by anÃÂ ...
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
... and Iraq was an anti-Islamic move in order to frame Islam as a harsh and ruthless religion in the eyes of the enemies, and to make Islamic countries as uncivilized pro-anti-humanitarian movements,” said Seyyed Kamal Kharrazi, the Head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday.
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 2, 2017
The female Kurdish soldiers on the frontline in Syria and Iraq are fighting for ... Revolutionary women fighters: 'Nothing can be a distraction, especially .... There are no official numbers on casualties, mainly to keep morale high. ... Every town liberated from Islamic State establishes a local council that hasÃÂ ...
Catch News
September 2, 2017
The recent high-level engagement with the Iraqi government and military in ... by the Supreme Leader and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The Atlantic
August 26, 2017
All these years later, Mattis was returning to Iraq at a hopeful .... In a rare recent interview with The Islander, the newspaper of Mercer Island High School, he described the Iranian regime as “acting more like a revolutionary cause. ... and the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council announced aÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 24, 2017
August 24, 2017 Amman, Jordan—With the so-called Islamic State on the ... In a flurry of high-profile visits to Riyadh in late July, Saudi Arabia hosted a ... also announced the formation of a joint trade council and a committee to .... militias, has the presence of its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, andÃÂ ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
August 16, 2017
... February 10, 2012, a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. ... For Saudi Arabia, which sees itself as the bastion of Sunni Islam, less Iranian ... “His visits to the region, and broadly the high-profile visits by Iraq, those ... last month they are setting up a council to upgrade strategic relations.
STRATFOR
August 15, 2017
In the past month, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) — a cornerstone ... that sparked the Iranian Revolution — lost its leader, Ammar al-Hakim. .... The Independent High Electoral Commission has deemed dozens ofÃÂ ...
Tehran Times
August 14, 2017
Born in the Iraqi city of Najaf, Hashemi Shahroudi has been the head ... The high-profile secretary of the council, Mohsen Rezaei, was kept in the post. ... after a verdict by Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Revolution.
Long War Journal
August 10, 2017
Estimates for the all-volunteer Basij vary widely: Iranian officials claim as high as 11 million, ... During the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Revolutionary Guard provided ... Between May and June, Guard-led militants and Iranian drones ... to include the Treasury Secretary in the National Security Council.
The American Interest
August 9, 2017
Indeed, the President is a product of the Iranian Revolution and ... The two wanted to rebuild the country after the devastating Iran-Iraq ... In August 1992, for example, the High Council for Cultural Revolution, a governmentÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
Armed wing of the Iraq Islamic Movement. .... the Deputy Chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council between 1979 and 2003, and right now is one of the most US-sought high-ranking Saddam Hussein-era officials.
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