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		<title>Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Terrorist Organization</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The agents of order for a harsh ideological regime and its agents of oppression.]]></description>
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<p>Canada has a fairly tough and effective set of anti-terrorism laws, provided that a terrorist belongs to an entity listed by the Canadian government to which these laws are deliberately applied.  Canada has listed al Qaeda and Hezbollah, among other Islamic groups.   Once the Tamil Tigers were added to the list in 2006, it helped to being about the end of that group by making it impossible for them to continue to fund-raise in Canada.</p>
<p>When the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1979, its leader, Ayatollah Khomeini formed an organization called the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.”  Aside from its major goal that is the protection of the Islamic system of Iran rather than the Iranian people, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ duty is to prevent any uprisings or internal dissident.  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps consist of:</p>
<p><strong>1</strong>. Paramilitary Brigades; 31 “Corps” distributed throughout the country and who get first call on conscripts and new military equipment.</p>
<p><strong>2</strong>. The Basij Militia:  A paramilitary police force of 90,000 that are the ideological police of the Iranian Revolution.</p>
<p><strong>3</strong>. The Qods Force:  The terrorist element, and described exactly as such by many observers.</p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>The Ansar ol Mahdi Force:  The hard core of the IRGC, they are the bodyguard force for the senior members of the government and for the nuclear program and the rocket force (which they control).</p>
<p>In addition, the IRGC is linked to terrorist activities around the world and supports terrorist organizations.  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the paramilitary troops of the Iranian regime.  Like the KGB of the Soviet Union or the SS of Nazi Germany, the IRGC are both the agents of order for a harsh ideological regime and its agents of oppression.</p>
<p>On the face of things, they are a national police force and a security agency for the government of a nation-state.  However, that nation state is a regime that was created and is sustained through coercion and violence, and the IRGC are the agents of that coercion.</p>
<p>When it suits the Iranian regime, the IRGC is a part of a legitimate government (insofar as the regime can be truly said to be legitimate).  However, when it suits the Iranian government, they can also pretend that the IRGC does not represent official policy and is not a component of that government.  This sorry sham of “plausible deniability” has been played too often.</p>
<p>The IRGC pretends that it is not an agent of the Iranian authorities when it is training terrorists in Lebanon and Yemen, or sending paramilitary forces to shore up Syria, fighting alongside Hezballah, or protecting dope smuggling operations in Latin America.  Its Qods Force has worked with many terrorist groups (including liaising with al Qaeda), delivered terrorist attacks of its own, and has murdered dissidents and exiles on behalf of Iran.  Some of the significant terrorist activities of the IRGC include the 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut, the 1988 Kuwait Airlines hijacking, the 1992 Israel Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, and most significantly, the explosion of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. In addition, the IRGC played an important role during the 2006 Lebanon War and was responsible for firing missiles at Israeli naval vessels.  It further assisted Hezballah to fire rockets into Israel across the Syrian border.</p>
<p>Therefore, Canada has many reasons to put the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the terrorist list.</p>
<p><strong>1</strong>. Canada has evidence that Zahra Kazemi, the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, was raped and tortured before her 2003 beating death in a Tehran prison. Iran has always refused to release her corpse so that we could do an autopsy.  The IRGC runs Iran’s prisons.</p>
<p><strong>2</strong>. Iran supplied weapons and explosives to the Taliban in southwestern Afghanistan, apparently since 2003. The Afghan government says Iran supplied 10.9 tons of small arms and ammunition to the Taliban in 2009 and the British intercepted a big shipment in June 2011.  Iranian supplied material has probably killed some Canadian soldiers.  Arms transfers to guerrillas are one of the responsibilities of the IRGC.</p>
<p><strong>3</strong>. Hezballah, a listed terrorist entity under Canadian law, has always maintained a close relationship with Iran through the IRGC – which trained and armed the group.  Hezballah has used Canada as a base for fundraising and specialist equipment, and their actions directly contributed to the death of a Canadian soldier with the UN in South Lebanon in 2006.</p>
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		<title>The Mullahs’ History of Assassination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-three years of terror.]]></description>
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<p>The deaths of the Iranian defence scientists have allowed the regime in Tehran to weep copious tears and sputter outrage about the inequity of assassination as a political tool.  One might think the more natural reaction there might be envy.  Assassination has been one of the outreach tools of the ayatollahs and their regime in Iran since the early days of the Revolution. When the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1979, it had two strategies to eliminate its opponents.  At home, it killed its internal opponents – killing 7,900 of them in its first five years alone using techniques many totalitarian regimes have employed, such as, mass executions, tortures, disappearances, and “accidents”. Abroad, it used its embassies and cultural offices to host killers and sent them out after prominent critics.  Many of these critics living overseas were Iranian intellectuals and activists who had escaped from Iran after the establishment of the regime.  In addition to employing terror against its own citizens and émigrés, the Iranian government has also claimed victims from other nationalities.  The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the world’s most significant sponsors of terrorism.  During its 33 years of existence, it has continually instigated violence elsewhere and pursued indirect war through the use of terrorism throughout the Middle East, Africa, and both North and South America.</p>
<p>Although the Islamic Republic of Iran officials claim that terrorism is strange to them, an immense weight of evidence shows that orchestrated terrorism outside Iran is a major factor in practice of the regime.  The first victims of the Iranian government terrorism were Shahriar Shafigh, the Shah of Iran’s nephew who was assassinated in 1979 in Paris and Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the former press attaché of the Iranian embassy in the United States under the Shah of Iran who was assassinated in 1980 in Washington.  The assassination of Ali Akbar Tabatabai was committed by David Belfield or Dawud Salahuddin, an African-American who converted to Islam and after the assassination fled to Iran.  In 2001, Dawud Salahuddin acted as the major character of the movie Kandahar, directed by one of the Iranian regime’s filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf.  After the first assassinations, many other Iranian dissidents were killed in different parts of the world.</p>
<p>Among the dead are, Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar (the last Prime Minister of the Shah of Iran), Dr. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou (the Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran), General Gholam Ali Oveisi (Tehran military governor), Fereydoun Farrokhzad (the famous Iranian showman, singer, and poet), and many other.  One of the more notorious attacks by the agents of the Iranian government against its dissidents occurred in Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany in 1992 that caused the murder of Sadegh Sharafkandi (the Secretary General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran) and his representatives and translator, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, and Nouri Dehkordi.  In April 10, 1997, the Berlin court announced that this assassination was plotted by Ali Khamenei (Iran Supreme Leader), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Iran former President), and Ali Fallahian (Iran former Minister of Intelligence).  Two of the terrorists were Kazem Darabi, an Iranian who lived in Berlin and Abbas Rhayel, a Lebanese terrorist and a member of the Hezballah organization.  Other Iranian and Lebanese terrorists were able to escape to Iran and Lebanon.</p>
<p>One of the most significant examples of the terrorist activities of the Iranian government against non-Iranians was the truck bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994.  The Iranian government directed this terrorist activity through the terrorist group Hezballah.  This was one of the deadliest bombings to have ever occurred in Argentina, killing 85 people and injuring 300.  A major motive behind this atrocity seems to have been the suspension of a nuclear technology transfer agreement between Iran and Argentina.  According to Argentine judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, the terrorists who were involved in this act were six Iranians (including Ahmad Reza Asghari, the third Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Iran Embassy in Buenos Aires, who used to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard before being posted to Argentina) and one Lebanese man.  Evidence suggests that the terrorist attack was planned in 1993, when Ahmad Reza Asghari attended a meeting with the former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his deputies.</p>
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