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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps


 * 1Terminology
 * 2Organization
 * 2.1History and structure
 * 2.2Military structure
 * 2.2.1Basij
 * 2.2.2Quds Force
 * 2.2.3Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
 * 2.2.4Navy of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
 * 2.2.5Ground forces
 * 2.2.5.1Ansar-ul-Mahdi Corps
 * 2.3Size
 * 2.4Senior commanders
 * 3Combat history
 * 3.1Iran–Iraq War
 * 3.2Lebanon Civil War
 * 3.32006 Lebanon War
 * 3.42006 plane crash
 * 3.5Possible attacks on Quds Force
 * 3.6October 2009 Pishin bombing
 * 3.7In Syria, 2011–present
 * 3.8Iraq, 2014–present
 * 3.92014 Israeli drone shoot down
 * 4Influence
 * 4.1Political
 * 4.2Economic activity
 * 4.3Analysis
 * Aid to known terrorist organizations
 * The U.S. Department of the Treasury has noted several different terrorist organizations that have been supported by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), and the Taliban. In the U.S. Department of the Treasury's report, four IRGC senior officials, Hushang Alladad, Hossein Musavi, Hasan Mortezavi, and Mohammad Reza Zahedi, were specifically named for providing support to terrorist organizations. Hushang Alladad, a financial officer for the IRGC, was cited as personally administering financial support to terrorist groups including Hizballah, Hamas, and PIJ. Both General Hossein Musavi and Colonel Hasan Mortevazi were claimed to have provided financial and material support to the Taliban. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the IRGC commander in Lebanon, was claimed to have played a crucial role in Iran's aid to Hizballah. According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Zahedi served as a liaison to Hizballah and Syrian intelligence services as well as taking part in weapon deals involving Hizballah. The U.S. Treasury report goes on to detail the IRGC's methods of support for terrorist groups: "The Government of Iran also uses the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and IRGC-QF to implement its foreign policy goals, including, but not limited to, seemingly legitimate activities that provide cover for intelligence operations and support to terrorist and insurgent groups. These activities include economic investment, reconstruction, and other types of aid to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, implemented by companies and institutions that act for or on behalf of, or are owned or controlled by the IRGC and the Iranian government."

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 * 5Controversy
 * 5.1Designation as a terrorist organization
 * On Monday April 8, 2019, United States president Donald Trump announced that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps would be designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) using Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The IRGC's status as an FTO went into effect on April 15, 2019. This designation represents an unprecedented act by the United States government, as it has never before identified an entire section of a foreign nation's government as an FTO. While justifying the action, President Trump stated that “[t]he designation underscores that the Iranian regime’s use of terrorism makes it fundamentally different from any other government,” and claimed that the move was made in order to “expand the scope and scale of our maximum pressure on the Iranian regime.”  Further justification was provided in a fact sheet published by the U.S. Department of State. It claims that Iran is an outlaw regime which relies heavily on terrorism tactics and that the IRGC specifically has conducted terrorism over the last 40 years. It goes on to state that the Iranian regime is responsible for at least 603 American military deaths, or 17% of US deaths in Iraq from 2003-2011.
 * 5.2 Response to terrorist organization designation
 * The move was met with unfavorable reactions from Iranian leaders and militants. Shortly after the US announced the designation, the Iranian government declared the United States Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the Middle East, as a terrorist organization. According to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the move "was in response to the illegal and unwise move from the U.S." On the following day, Iranian Members of Parliament displayed their support of the IRGC by collectively wearing green military pants and chanted "death to America" as they opened session. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani also responded to the move, commenting that it was a mistake which would only increase the IRGC's popularity in Iran and elsewhere.
 * 5.3 Implications of terrorist organization designation
 * The direct implications of the IRGC's designation as an FTO are currently unclear. Other U.S. authorities have previously designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization, including the Treasury Department. Because of this, many of the financial sanctions that the most recent designation would apply to the IRGC have already been in effect.
 * 6See also
 * 7References and notes
 * 8Further reading
 * 9External links


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