[caption id="attachment_43238" align="alignright" width="189"] chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey[/caption] WASHINGTON: Iran's role in an Iraqi military offensive to recaptureTikritcould be positive as long as it does not fuel sectarian divisions in the country, theU.S.military's top officer said Tuesday. General ...

[caption id="attachment_121158" align="alignright" width="179"] Suleimani, seen here, right, in 2006, who served in the 1980-1988 war against Iraq while in the Revolutionary Guards, was appointed as Quds Force commander in 1997.[/caption] In the fight against Islamic extremists, the commander ofIrans secretive special forces is turning into an unlikely ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian commander predicted the ultimate failure of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group as well as the US military campaigns, saying they both lack reality. Either the US campaigns or the ISIL terrorist measures are doomed to failure since they lack reality, and their approaches will not be effectual ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Diana Timmerman, and Marie Donovan. Military and Security Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Air Force Commander ...

The Critical Threats Project of the American Enterprise Institute recently published a report entitled, The IRGC Command Network: Formal Structure and Informal Influence. This report examines the formal structures that comprise the IRGCs senior leadership and the informal influence networks that dominate these structures in order to identify and describe ...

High-level security sources said that the secret meeting between presidential advisor Issam al-Haddad and Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, an elite unit of the IranianRevolutionary Guards, last week was the primary reason behind the departure of Maj. Gen. and former Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal El-Din, who objected to the meeting ...