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VEVAK in Mid-East
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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
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BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's prime minister on Saturday accused
Egypt, Libya and Iran of providing weapons for Islamic militants who
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Saturday, 22 July 2006 |
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London, 22 July 2006 (Iran Terror) – A senior official of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main opposition to the religious theocracy ruling Iran, has shed light on a terrorist bombing in June of a passenger bus full of Iraqi workers heading to the group’s base Camp Ashraf, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
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The Washington Post, May 21 - Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iran has methodically built and strengthened its military, political and religious influence in Iraq. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has extensively infiltrated Iraq's Ministry of the Interior and police force, both mainstays of Shiite power. The hundreds of Iranian mullahs and businessmen who have slipped across the border have a commanding presence in southern Iraq's commercial and religious sectors….
Over the past three years, Tehran has deployed to Iraq a large number of the Revolutionary Guard's Qods Force -- a highly professional force specializing in assassinations and bombings -- as well as officers from the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security and representatives of Lebanese Hezbollah.
The Qods Force has a longstanding relationship with Hezbollah, which it trains and supplies in coordination with Syria through an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps unit in central Lebanon. In the words of Iranian Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, the IRGC commander, "The range of [the IRGC's] duty is not limited to our land and we have extra-border missions."
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
 Plot for revenge attacks on West
Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv
The Sunday Times – Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington.
US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the
Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge
of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President
George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for his role in
a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985
hijacking of a TWA jet and murder of one of its passengers, a US navy
diver.
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
 By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that Iran was a menace for reasons other than its alleged drive to build a nuclear bomb and that the U.S. and its allies have "a number of tools" if Tehran does not change its ways.
"I think there's no doubt that Iran is the single biggest threat from a state that we face," Rice told a Senate panel.
She claimed strong international backing for the U.S. position that
Iran must not be allowed to continue what she claimed is a covert
effort to gain bomb-making expertise and technology.
"We need now to broaden that thinking and that coalition, not just to
what Iran is doing on the nuclear side but also what they're doing on
terrorism," Rice said. "Those are some of the discussions that I have
with these same states."
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Monday, 27 March 2006 |
Intelligence officials say terrorist leaders safe in Islamic republic in
By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of al-Qaida terror network leaders residing in the country.
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
 Neighbor nation's actions belie its words, he says
Jonathan Finer, Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post
Baghdad -- Iran is publicly professing its support for Iraq's stalemated political process while its military and intelligence services back outlawed militias and insurgent groups, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Thursday.
Iranian agents train and arm Shiite militias such as the Mahdi Army,
linked to one of Iraq's most powerful clerics, Khalilzad said, and also
work closely with Sunni Arab-led insurgent forces including Ansar
al-Sunna, which is blamed for dozens of deadly attacks on Iraqi and
U.S. soldiers and Shiite civilians.
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
Iran Focus – British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused Iran on Wednesday of meddling “furiously” in Iraq and said that the ruling theocracy had a terrorist “ideology” at its heart.
Blair also hinted at an Iran-Al-Qaeda axis and said that for them, Britain and “democratic” countries were the enemy.
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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
The Los Angeles Times
They say intelligence suggests that the regime lets key figures plot. But the picture is cloudy.
By Josh Meyer
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the country.
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Friday, 17 March 2006 |
 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. officials in Iraq on Friday again accused Iran of meddling in its neighbor's internal affairs, saying the Islamic Republic was carrying out "unhelpful activities" there.
A U.S. embassy statement said Washington was "concerned about unhelpful Iranian activities in Iraq. These concerns are well known and we have talked about them."
The statement was issued one day after Iran said it accepted a proposal by a leading Iraqi Shi'ite leader to open a dialogue with the United States on Iraq.
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
 The Washington Times
By Hatem J Mukhlis, M.D.
Iraq is part of the much wider sociopolitical order of the Middle East. For solutions to be successful, Iraqi problems therefore need a much broader approach.
A domestic approach, albeit plausible in the past, is impossible today. Foreign forces with contradicting interests entered Iraq and changed the sociopolitical order. The former balance of power had to change. More serious regional problems have to be addressed before expecting the Iraqi crisis to be solved.
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
The Intelligence Ministry Terrorist Training Centers
The Intelligence Ministry often uses barracks and military centers belonging to the IRGC or the classic army for training non-Iranian agents. The Ministry takes part of the army or IRGC barracks and turns it into a secret section for training the terrorists.
a. Lavizan Training Center
Lavizan Training Camp is located in Lavizan District, Tehran and is an army center for intelligence and counter-intelligence courses. The instructors are from the classical army. The Intelligence Ministry also uses this camp for training its cadres and terrorists. The assassins of Dr. Kazem Rajavi, received a great amount of their trainings in this camp.
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Tuesday, 28 February 2006 |
History of Training Centres
Since early 1993, Khamenei started setting up training camps for non-Iranian Moslems and left the job to be pursued by Mullah Mohammed Ali Taskhiri, head of International Relations in Khamenei’s Office. The candidates for such camps are selected and introduced by the Regime’s cultural, intelligence and terrorist organs in foreign countries. The Qods Force elements stay with the candidates as their hosts, instructors and companions throughout the period in the camps in order to closely assess and select them for their intelligence and terrorist missions and put them under further special trainings.
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Tuesday, 28 February 2006 |
Reuters
The American ambassador to Iraq, taking an unusually blunt line with Iran, accused Iraq's eastern neighbour on Monday of giving training and weapons to militias operating in Iraq. " Iran has another policy as well: to work with militias, provide training and provide weapons to extremist groups, direct and indirectly," Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a news conference.
Tehran is playing a "negative role" in Iraq, Khalilzad said, adding
that the Iranian foreign minister's recent demand that Britain pull its
troops out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra was "uncalled-for
interference."
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
Washington Times
Commentary
By Abollah Hasan Rashid Al-Jubori
The crisis over Iran's nuclear dossier is viewed as one of today's most important world challenges. Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, told CBS News' "Face the Nation": "This is the most grave situation that we have faced since the end of the Cold War, absent the whole war on terror."
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