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NEWS ABOUT: Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Iranian Revolutionary Guard stories: 19 news summaries

 Iran Bomber 
 Kills 26, 5 Elite Guards 

Ahmadinejad accuses US of involvement

Oct 18, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in a southeastern area that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, the official IRNA news agency reports. The commanders were on their way to a meeting with local tribal... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • suicide bomber • Sunni extremism • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

 Iran Test Launches Its 
 Longest-Range Missiles 

Weapon with 1,200-mile range could strike Israel, US military bases

Sep 28, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(AP) - Iran claimed to have test-fired the longest-range missiles in its arsenal today—weapons capable of carrying a warhead and striking Israel or US military bases in the Middle East. It was the third round of missile tests in two days of drills by the power Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • Revolutionary Guards • weapon • missile • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Shahab-3

Ahmadinejad Taps Fugitive
for Iran Cabinet

Defense pick wanted
in '94 blast at Jewish center in Argentina

Aug 21, 09 9:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pick for Iran’s defense minister is wanted in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina, the Guardian reports. Eight-five were killed and 150 injured in the attack, the worst on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II; Ahmad Vahidi... More »

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Iran • terrorism • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Hezbollah • Argentina • al Quds Force • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Interpol • Jewish • Anti-Defamation League • cabinet minister • Ahmad Vahidi • defense minister

(Newser) - Iranian protesters, both male and female, were raped in a notorious prison in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, one of the defeated candidates alleged today. Reformist Mehdi Karroubi wrote on his website that senior prison officials told him about "really shameful issues," including sexual violence that... More »

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Iran • rape • Revolutionary Guards • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • sexual violence • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests • Mehdi Karoubi

(Newser) - Iranian police beat demonstrators gathered in a Tehran cemetery to mourn victims of post-election violence, including Neda Agha-Soltan—the 26-year-old whose killing was witnessed by hundreds of thousands on YouTube. A witness told Reuters that some mourners were arrested. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi defied threats from the Revolutionary Guards... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Neda • Iranian protests • Mehdi Karoubi • Neda Agha Soltan

(Newser) - Iranian opposition candidates issued a statement today demanding an end to the “savage, shocking attacks” against protesters, and calling for the release of innocent people arrested in the government’s post-election crackdown, the New York Times reports. “The useless wave of arrests must end immediately,” read the... More »

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Iran • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Mohammad Khatami • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Medhi Karroubi • Iranian protests

(Newser) - Iranian-American activists are circulating an email, written in Farsi, in which a 17-year-old boy describes his torture at the hands of the regime, complete with graphic photographs, Salon reports. The boy, who says he's not an activist of any stripe, says he was minding his own business in a parking... More »

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Iran • torture • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Iranian election • Basij militia

(Newser) - The Iranian regime’s first response against pro-Mousavi protesters last week was not the Revolutionary Guard but its volunteer branch, the Basij militia, CNN reports. Iran says the militia, created by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, numbers 12 million; the actual count is probably a smaller—but still effective—300,... More »

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Iran • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Iran war • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Ayatollah Khomeini • Basij militia

(Newser) - Police used tear gas against hundreds of protesters in Tehran today and fired warning shots into the air, the Guardian reports. About 200 had gathered to protest in Haft-e-Tir square, defying the Revolutionary Guard’s warning that it would crack down on further demonstrations. Hundreds of police descended to... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Iranian election • Iranian protests • Haft-e-Tir

(AP) - Hillary Clinton said today the US hopes the outcome of the contested Iranian presidential election reflects the "genuine will and desire" of the Iranian people. "We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran, but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Canada • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

(Newser) - This might seal it: Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi’s request to overturn the results of the presidential election, the Guardian reports. Khamenei, perhaps dashing Mousavi's only chance to upend an outcome the challenger claims was rigged, called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s win a “... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • disputed election • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • supreme leader

Petraeus: Iran Behind
Green Zone Attack

General: Tehran equipped and trained Iraqi insurgents

Mar 24, 08 4:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gen. David Petraeus says Iran was behind yesterday's mortar attack on Baghdad's Green Zone, the BBC reports. Tehran trained, equipped, and funded the insurgents who carried out the attack, he said. "All of this in complete violation of promises made by President Ahmadinejad and the other most senior Iranian... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Baghdad • Green Zone • David Petraeus • al Quds Force • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Boat Face-Off Reveals Iran Tactics: US

Navy also reveals two December incidents, where shots were fired

Jan 12, 08 5:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Objects tossed from Iranian boats posed no threat to US ships last Sunday, the Navy said yesterday, but did reveal Tehran's warfare tactics. The incident was also one of three between US and Iranian ships over the past month: In the first face-off, Dec. 19, the USS Whidbey Island fired... More »

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Iran • Persian Gulf • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • US Navy • Strait of Hormuz • Iranian speedboats

US Finding More Iranian Arms in Iraq

Easing tensions between Washington and Tehran not stemming weapons flow

Nov 11, 07 2:13 PM CST
(Newser) - US soldiers are finding more Iranian weaponry in Iraq than ever before, despite an apparent easing of tensions between Washington and Tehran, Reuters reports. Iran has vowed to stop funneling armor-piercing explosives into Iraq, and such attacks are down, but Iran is still exerting extensive influence in Iraq, a top... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • explosively formed penetrators

Iran: US Attack Would Result
in 'Quagmire'

With meeting ahead on new sanctions, Russia encourages diplomacy

Oct 31, 07 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A US attack would lead to a "quagmire deeper than Iraq," an Iranian official warned today, reacting to intensifying rhetoric from the Bush administration. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany will meet Friday to discuss tougher sanctions against Iran. Meanwhile, Russia insists that... More »

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Iran • Russia • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Mohammad Ali Jafari

US Cools War Rhetoric With Iran

Sanctions 'in no way, shape or form' a prelude to war, official says

Oct 26, 07 10:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington cooled war rhetoric with Iran yesterday, calling sanctions "diplomacy" that "in no way, shape or form" anticipate force. The sanctions are "more a demonstration of restraint than a signal that we’re going to war," echoed one US expert. But the US move did irk... More »

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Iran • Vladimir Putin • sanctions • terrorist • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • uranium

Clinton, Pelosi May Divide Dems

One is genuine hawk, the other authentic dove

Oct 25, 07 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - They may have a lot in common on the surface, but Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi differ vastly when it comes to foreign policy, Politico says. With votes to authorize the Iraq war and designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorists, Clinton is an honest-to-goodness, unapologetic hawk, while Pelosi is... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • John Murtha • Clinton 2008 • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Armenian Resolution • Iraq war

Rice, Paulson Roll Out New Iran Sanctions

Asset freezes will target Revolutionary Guard and Quds Force

Oct 25, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice and Hank Paulson will roll out a new package of US sanctions against Iran today, targeting the Revolutionary Guard Corps and its covert foreign-operations wing, the Quds Force, which the US accuses of aiding insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere. It will be the broadest set of punitive measures... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • al Quds Force • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

US, Tehran to Hold Fresh Talks

Agreement comes amid new charges of bomb smuggling to Iraq

Jul 23, 07 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US and Iran will hold further talks on Iraq beginning tomorrow—despite new accusations the Iranians are arming and abetting Iraqi insurgents. The talks were announced by Iran's foreign minister yesterday just hours after two men linked to Iran were arrested near Baghdad for smuggling EFPs—the armor-penetrating bombs... More »

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Iran • insurgents • roadside bomb • Hoshyar Zebari • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

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