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Force, ~ranian ReV~lutiona~ ?uard ~orps (IROC - pas~aran~n Intelligence Agencies Page 3 of4
Important In KuwaIt, BahrAdthe Umted Arab EmIrate~
The·largest branch ofPasdaran foreign operations consists ofapproximately 12,000
Arabic speaking Iranians, Afghans, Iraqis, Lebanese shi'ites and North Africans who
trained in Iran or received training in Afghanistan during the Afghan war years. Presently
these foreign operatives receive training in Iran, Sudan and Lebanon, and include the
Hizballah ["Party ofAllah"] intelligence, logistics and operational units in Lebanon
[Hizballah is primarily a·social and political rather than military organization]. The
second largest Pasdaran foreign operations relates to the Kurds (particularly Iraqi Kurds),
while the third largest relates to the Kashmiri's, the Balouchi's and the Afghans. The
Pasdaran has also supported the establishment ofHizballah branches in Lebanon, Iraqi
Kurdistan, Jordan and Palestine, and the Islamic Jihad in many other Moslem countries
including Egypt~ Turkey, Chechnya and in Caucasia. Hizballah has been implicated in
the counterfeiting ofU.S. dollars and European currencies, both to finance its operations
and to disrupt Western economies by impairing international trade and tourism.
The Office ofLiberation Movements has established a GulfSection tasked with
forming a GulfBattalion as part ofthe Jerusalem Forces. In April 1995 a number of
international organizations linked to· international terrorism --including the Japanese Red
Army, the Armenian Secret Army, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party -- were reported to
have met in Beirut with representatives ofthe Iraqi Da'wah Party, the Islamic Front for
the Liberation ofBahrain, Hizballah, Iran's "Office ofLiberation Movements," and Iran's
Guardians ofthe Revolution. Tehran's objective was to destabilize Arab Gulfstates by
supporting fundamentalists with military, financial, and logistical support. Members of
these and other organizations receive military training at a Guardians ofthe Revolution
facility some 100 kilometers south ofTehran. A variety ofoftraining courses are
qonducted at the facility for fundamentalists from· the Gulfstates, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia,
and Lebanon, including naval operations, mines, and diving operations in a special camp
near the Orontes River.
Sources and Methods
• SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR~D FORCES_ in JRA1'1-_A C0UD:t!y Stu~y
Library ofCongress Federal Research Division
• "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC" OF IRAN EXPORT OF REVOLUTION FLAG OF
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FREEDOM ORGANIZATION OF IRAN (FFO) SPECIAL REPORT August 12,
1997
• Counterfe~t U.~._ Currency Abro~d:_ Issues a~d U.S. Deterrenc~ Eff,?rts (GAO Letter
Report, 02/26/96, GAO/GGD-.96-11)
• "Alleged Extremist Plans To Destabilize Gulf' FBIS-NES-95-092 : 10 Feb 1995
[Source: Paris ~-WAT~N AL-'ARABI, 10 Feb 95 pp 14-1.6.]
http://fas.org/irp/worldliran/qods/
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