balance10: news on Iran

US $100 bill (R) and its equivalent in Iranian rials (L), Tehran, Iran, January 20, 2016 [Photo/Raheb Homavandi/Reuters]

2-8-18 France will continue to encourage its firms to do business in Iran in spite of objections raised by US President Donald Trump on the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, a senior French finance official said.

France and other European countries have been looking to increase trade with Iran since Paris, Washington and other world powers agreed to lift most economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limitations on Tehran’s nuclear programme. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/france-iran-strengthen-business-ties-180208160345654.html

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2-8-16 He said four suspects “attended military training camps operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Iraqi branch of (Shiite movement) Hezbollah”, although it was unclear if they were the fugitives. The charges were filed after a probe into a weapons cache found in a warehouse in the village of Nuwaidrat, he said in a statement. “In excess of 1.5 tonnes of high-grade explosives, including C4-RDX, TNT and other powerful chemical explosives were discovered in the counter-terrorism operation in September last year,” he said. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-charges-11-with-forming-iran-trained-terrorist-group-1.1668595

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8-24-17 The Bahraini government said today that the country’s security forces have arrested seven members of a cell suspected of carrying out acts of terrorism in the island country, the Bahraini and Iranian media reported. A report in Bahrain News Agency stated: “The cell is led by Hussain Ali Ahmed Dawood, 31, a leader of Saraya Al Ashtar, the terror wing of Al Wafa Islamic Movement. Dawood's nationality has been revoked. He is a fugitive in Iran and has been sentenced to life imprisonment in three cases and 15 years in jail in another case by the Bahraini courts. He is involved in setting up and controlling various terror cells and planning terrorist crimes which have resulted in the death of a number of policemen. He has strong ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and terrorist Murtadha Al Sindi.” The report added that Bahraini authorities have also confiscated explosives in several residential areas that were planned for making bombs….

In March, Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that it had dismantled an Iranian-backed group that planned terrorist attacks in the island kingdom, including assassination of high-profile government officials. According to state-run Bahrain News Agency, 11 of the 14 individuals arrested are suspected of having received training in Iraq by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) and Lebanese Hezbollah. The report added that the arrests were made following intelligence operations that tracked the suspects’ multiple trips to Iran. The Ministry of Interior further alleged that the group operated under the leadership of Murtadha Majeed Al Sindi and Qassim Abdullah Ali, two individual who reportedly live in Iran and are designated as terrorist by the Bahraini government.

Earlier in March, government authorities had also said they had arrested 25 members of another allegedly Iranian-supported “terror cell” involved in attacks on the Bahraini security forces, including a deadly jail break in January. A statement released by the Bahraini government added that those arrested belonged to a 54-member group that went to Iran and Iraq to “receive training in the use of explosives and firearms at Revolutionary Guard camps." In February, Bahrain had announced the arrest of several individuals who had reportedly received military training in Iran and Iraq. “As part of the search and investigation that led to the foiling of the fleeing fugitives via the sea to Iran on February 9, a number of terror cells that were about to carry out terrorist plots have been dismantled through a comprehensive security plan,” Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported.

http://www.mei.edu/content/io/bahrain-claims-it-dismantled-terrorist-cell-links-iran-s-irgc

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11-15-17 The plot was thwarted after security officials identified a terror cell and arrested one suspect who targeted a police bus with a homemade bomb on October 27, killing one policeman and injuring nine others. His accomplice in the attack on the police bus fled to Iran after carrying out the crime, Al Hassan said. The cell members had received extensive training in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard camps on the use and making of explosives and firearms as well as providing support, equipment and logistical support. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-arrests-terror-attack-suspect-1.2125399

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2-8-18 In the past four decades, IRGC’s has been responsible for the execution of over 120,000 dissidents, including some of Iran’s brightest minds. From mullah’s “cultural revolution” of 1980-89 to the current wave of executions, to the recent crackdown of protesters the revolutionary guard’s main goal was and still is to safeguard the clerical regime against internal threats. -MAJID SADEGHPOUR,

Political director of the Organization of Iranian American Communities

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/iranian-revolutionary-guards-terror-within-and-abroad/

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