Reuters: About 50 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are believed to be training Shi’ite militias in the use of mortars and rockets in southern Iraq, the general commanding U.S. troops in the area said on Sunday.
Fifty Iranian Guards train south Iraq militias-US
Hanging crackdown in Iran
The Observer: Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal.
Iranian Guards amass secret fortunes
Sunday Telegraph: As the zealous enforcers of Iran’s Islamic revolution, they are at pains to be seen living humbly, maintaining homes in the crumbling Soviet-style slums of downtown Teheran and driving modest, imported Korean cars.
Iran army chief: Idiots in U.S. cannot harm IRGC
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 Irans most senior military official said on Saturday that the United States was bogged down in Iraq and unable to act against Irans elite military force. The top generals remarks were in response to reports in Western media that the Bush administration was planning to include Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the U.S. State Departments list of terrorist organisations.
Iran army chief: Idiots in U.S. cannot harm IRGC
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 Irans most senior military official said on Saturday that the United States was bogged down in Iraq and unable to act against Irans elite military force. The top generals remarks were in response to reports in Western media that the Bush administration was planning to include Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the U.S. State Departments list of terrorist organisations.
Remote northeast Iraq hit by Iran shells-officials
Reuters: The Iranian military has shelled Kurdish areas in Iraq’s remote northeast intermittently over the past three days, wounding two women and forcing the evacuation of 200 families, Iraqi officials said on Saturday.
Iran’s president calls Israel ‘the flag of Satan’
AFP: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday described arch-foe Israel as “the flag of Satan” and said the Jewish state was destined to fall apart, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran Guards warn U.S. of heavier blows ahead – daily
Reuters: The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted on Saturday as threatening to deal heavier blows in future against the United States after Washington said it may label the force a terrorist group.
6 Iran military personnel die as chopper crashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 At least five members of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed as their military helicopter crashed in north-west Iran, state media reported on Saturday.
6 Iran military personnel die as chopper crashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 At least five members of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed as their military helicopter crashed in north-west Iran, state media reported on Saturday.
