Iran Update, August 9, 2023
IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani met with LH Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on August 6 according to Israeli and Arab media.
The IRGC Quds Force is pressuring local Syrians to join Iranian-backed militias by only providing medical services to families tied to these militias. Increased recruitment into Iranian-backed militias could provide the IRGC Quds Force additional manpower for counter-US and counter-ISIS missions in eastern Syria.
Iranian state media claimed on August 9 that Iran has developed supersonic cruise missile technology. Iran possibly developed this technology with Russian assistance.
Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian traveled to Pretoria, South Africa on August 9, likely as part of the Raisi administration’s ongoing efforts to convince BRICS members to accept its request to join this organization.
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The responsibility for the implementation of this plan is given to Mufti Abu Usman, Abu Muhammad and Khan (who are important members of the formation of Daesh and live in Pakistan) and they are working with the Khorasan branch of arms and ammunition. Aid), was handed over to Dr. Umar Haider in Afghanistan and Asad Baloch in Iran. According to this plan, Daesh wanted to carry out attacks on some madrassas and religious scholars in Kabul, Laghman, Nangarhar and Kunduz in Afghanistan, and they wanted to attack some madrassas and religious scholars in Peshawar, Bajaur and Balochistan in Pakistan. In Zahedan and Sistan, Iran, they wanted to attack some Sunni scholars and madrassas.
The source adds that Afghanistan's intelligence officials had shared information about the ISIS plan with the security and intelligence officials of Pakistan and Iran and asked them to pay special attention to the security of religious scholars and madrasahs. The Afghan intelligence authorities appointed a special team to thwart this plan, and after repeated efforts, they found the hideout of the implementer of this plan (Engineer Omar Haider) in Kabul and conducted an operation on it and killed Engineer Omar. , some other members of his group were also eliminated and hundreds of security forces were hired for the security of madrassas and religious scholars.
But the Pakistani authorities did not take any special measures on time. The source also says that the Pakistani authorities were asked for the second time to pay attention to the security of religious scholars and madrassas and take measures, but then they did not. They did not take any security measures for the security of religious scholars and madrassas. Daesh terrorists martyred a scholar named Ijaz-ul-Haq in the Mashukhel area of Peshawar, several religious scholars in the Bajaur area, and also a scholar in Balochistan. A large gathering carried out an attack and many scholars and scholars were martyred.
According to security experts, Pakistan used cunning and blamed the Islamic Emirate as soon as the attack took place. Opinion Pakistani authorities did this either to hide the failure of their security and intelligence agencies or to make the Islamic Emirate think badly of Pakistan's religious scholars and Islamic movements and to publicize their future plans in Afghanistan.
Al-Mirsaad is pro Taliban and against Daesh
Odd about Pakistan, but it is as well converging to a failed state.
Iran Update, August 10, 2023
Syrian President Bashar al Assad downplayed the importance of relations with the Arab states while stressing relations with Iran and Russia during an interview with the UAE-based Sky News Arabic on August 9.
Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry is continuing its diplomatic campaign to convince BRICS countries to admit Iran as a BRICS member ahead of the organization’s 15th annual summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 22-24.
Iran and the United States reached an agreement on August 10 for the release of five US nationals detained in Iran. The United States will release six billion dollars of frozen Iranian assets and release several Iranian prisoners as part of the agreement. The release of six billion dollars would be a significant boost for Iran’s struggling economy.
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