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In this November 2, 2006 file photo, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fire missiles during a war game in a desert near the holy city of Qom, southeast of Tehran. (Reuters/Fars News)
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Iranian revolutionary guard soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980, which led to an eight-year-long war (1980-1988) in Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2013. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)
Iran replaces Revolutionary Guard commander in Iraq
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran will replace the military officer leading its response to the crisis in Iraq, a leading figure in Iraq’s biggest political bloc told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday. A senior member of the Shi’ite-led National Alliance, which includes parties...Caption:
A poster showing Iraqi Shi’ites killed in Syria while fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is seen in the southern port city of Basra on April 21, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/STR)
New War, Old Faces
Despite the pre-war strength—on paper—of the Syrian armed forces, the fighting in Syria has stretched the limits of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s military resources. Now in its fourth year, Assad’s fight against the forces of the Syrian revolution depends...Caption:
In this picture released by Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, members of Iran’s paramilitary Basij force, which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, attend a maneuver of preparation for possible attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, by the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran. (AP Photo/Tasnim, Hosein Heydarpour)
Basij groups to form in Egypt and Jordan, says Iran militia chief
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The head of Iran’s Basij militia said on Tuesday that Egypt and Jordan would form popular militias of their own in order to resist Israel, in what some observers see as an attempt to reassert the relevance of the organization in the face of...Caption:
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader’s office, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, foreground right, attends a graduation ceremony of a group of Revolutionary Guard members, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)