IRAN CREATES ELITE BAND OF PIRATES TO RULE THE SEAS
Sunday Express|February 13, 2022
ELITE units from Iran are training mercenaries as modern-day privateers to carry out naval attacks.
Marco Giannangeli
IRAN CREATES ELITE BAND OF PIRATES TO RULE THE SEAS

The Quds Force naval unit has already trained and equipped hundreds of Yemeni and Iraqi mercenaries to carry out attacks while solidifying a covert armssmuggling network, a new report reveals.

News of the unit emerges as diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to rein in its nuclear programme continue.

Iran’s Quds Force is already a well-established branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, tasked with mounting extra-territorial operations to support Iran’s proxy wars across the Middle East.

Its reach was drastically affected by the assassination of leader General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in January 2020 by a US drone strike while in Iraq.

Now, intelligence gleaned by the opposition group the National Council of Resistance of Iran, reveals Tehran

The efforts to engage foreign mercenaries in Yemen have intensified since the election of the “Butcher of Tehran” Ebrahim Raisi, 61, as Iran’s president, in parallel with an increase in missile attacks.

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