Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iran is said to have deployed at least 5,000 troops in neighboring Iraq. Kurdish sources said Islamic Revolutionary Guard has overseen the growing Iranian military presence in Iraq. The sources said IRGC Quds Force was directing operations by Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias against Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq is amassing forces for a counter-offensive against Al Qaida with assistance from the United States and Iran. Officials said the Iraq Army and security forces have mobilized tens of thousands of troops for a counter-offensive against Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The officials said the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has sent troops to bolster the Shi’ite regime of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki. Iran pledged to defend the Al Maliki regime in an effort to head off an Al Qaida onslaught on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Diplomatic sources said Teheran has deployed thousands of troops and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — An Iranian commander has been killed in the Sunni war in Syria. Iranian and opposition sources said Gen. Abdullah Iskandari died in a battle with Sunni rebels in Damascus. The sources said Iskandari, a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was responsible for security at the Shi’ite shrine Zeinab […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that Turkey was serving as a base for Iranian weapons procurement. The U.S. Treasury Department identified a Turkish national as helping Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to procure naval platforms. The Turk, Ali Canko, was said to assisted Iran’s Tiva Sanat Group in procuring and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran, amid its rapproachment with the United States, has disclosed its strategy to establish an insurgency presence in all countries that neighbor Israel. A senior Iranian commander said Teheran has formulated a strategy meant to surround Israel with hostile states. Basij commander Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi said Iran was working […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israel has determined that the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah received an advanced Russian cruise missile. Israeli sources said Hizbullah acquired the Russian-origin P-800 coastal defense system in 2013. The sources said components of the system were transferred to Hizbullah headquarters in Lebanon by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which received […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s intelligence agency has arrested “a number of cyber activists with links to foreigners,” the Teheran Fars News Agency reported. “[The Iranian cyber activists] were working within a complicated security-media network,” an IRGC official charged. Iran is one of the most xenophobic countries in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran’s proxies have taken over most of the fighting against Sunni rebels in Syria. Western diplomatic sources said Hizbullah and other Iranian proxies were assigned virtually all of the infantry operations against Sunni rebel strongholds. The sources said the Syrian military has been restricted to air and artillery strikes to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — An Iranian commander has been killed in the Sunni revolt in Syria. Officials said a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed by Sunni rebels in Syria. The officials identified the commander as Mohammed Jamali Paqale, said to have directed IRGC and Hizbullah units in central Syria. On […]