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| terrorist list!. | Because the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is a mafia state. |
The Guards are the main force behind Iran’s nuclear program, lethal
meddling across the Middle East, ballistic missile drive and
domestic crackdown.
IRGC’s intelligence arm is today holding a number of U.S. citizens
in prison in Tehran on spurious charges. Its foreign expeditionary
branch, the Quds Force, is spearheading Iran’s military
interventions in places such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. From
Lebanon to Syria to Iraq and elsewhere, it has helped create a
variety of Shiite militant proxy groups that it arms and
indoctrinates into its sectarian and anti-American worldview.
At home, the Guard’s generals are the biggest obstacle to the
demands of the mass movement that has tried to bring about gradual
political change. IRGC bosses regularly threaten reformist leaders
with death. Meanwhile, the organization’s insatiable appetite for
money has put it in control of about 20 percent of the Iranian
economy. Its extortionist methods are so flagrant that even an
ally, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, once referred to them
as “our smuggler brothers.”
Holds the Key
In other words, on key issues that matter most to the United States
-- from Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs to its
military interventions across the region -- it is the words and
actions of the IRGC leadership that Washington needs to first
consider as the Trump White House develops its Iran policy. And
simply hinting at possibly listing the IRGC as a terrorist
organization is an important step in the effort to influence the
shadowy organization’s behavior.
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