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2021-09-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Quds Force has established the Palestine branch, which is responsible, among other things, for transferring money and providing additional assistance

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#1 Lest we forget: By Con Coughlin
8:00AM GMT 04 Dec 2011
His is not a face familiar..., but members of the rampaging Iranian mob which last week laid siege to the British Embassy in Tehran knew what they were doing when they held aloft a picture of a grey-haired man, with downturned mouth and beard more trimmed than those of his country's religious leaders. Qassem Suleimani, a fanatical Islamic revolutionary, has rapidly become one of the world's top terrorist suspects, as well as a powerful and sinister force within Iran. The crowd of enraged student protesters who chanted "Death to Britain" as they terrorised a beleaguered group of British diplomats, know him as the head of Iran's feared Quds Force, the 15,000-strong paramilitary wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and a primary suspect for organising the assault on the embassy. There were frightening moments ...,when it appeared that a rerunof the American embassy siege in 1979, when 50 American diplomatic staff were held hostage for 444 days. If so, it would have been a triumph for Suleimani, who would have made common cause with the hardliners of 1979 who opposed the deal which eventually led to the release of the Americans. ...

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-13 09:08|| 2021-09-13 09:08|| Front Page Top

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