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“Iran’s Revolutionary Guards beat sanctions: exile”
al-Reuters ^ | August 22, 2007 | Paul Eckert

Posted on 08/24/2007 12:35:27 AM PDT by Schnucki

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are using front groups to beat U.N. sanctions and acquire weapons and material for Tehran’s nuclear program, an exiled opponent of the Iranian government said on Wednesday.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, who accurately disclosed important details about Iran’s nuclear program in 2002, called for tighter U.N. curbs and swift U.S. action to rein in the elite corps.

“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been, consistently over the past few months, violating the United Nations resolutions 1737 and 1747, using different ways to evade the sanctions and import goods and material,” Jafarzadeh said at a news conference in Washington.

Those two sets of sanctions were slapped on Iran for rejecting any halt to uranium enrichment, a process the United States and other Western countries suspect Tehran is using to develop atomic bombs.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883800/posts

Iran Vows to Hit US ‘Heavier in Future’
Iranian.ws ^ | August 19, 2007

Posted on 08/20/2007 8:17:56 AM PDT by nuconvert

“Iran Vows to Hit US ‘Heavier in Future’”

August 19, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TEHRAN — The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards yesterday threatened to deal heavier blows in future against the United States after Washington said it may label the force a terrorist group, according to news reports.

Local press in Tehran quoted Revolutionary Guards leader General Yahya Rahim Safavi saying he could understand Washington’s ire towards the group because of their recent successes against the US.

The comments came as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new verbal assault on Israel, denouncing it as the “flag of Satan” and saying it may be facing disintegration.

Four days after reports the US was considering listing the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, Safavi was quoted as saying in the conservative daily Kayhan: “America will receive a heavier punch from the guards in the future.

“We will never remain silent in the face of US pressure and we will use our leverage against them.”

There was no elaboration on what Safavi meant by the punch or the organisation’s “leverage.””

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883449/posts

“U.S. General: Americans Tracking Iranian Forces”
Dallas Morning News ^ | August 19, 2007

Posted on 08/19/2007 11:31:04 AM PDT by nuconvert

“U.S. General: Americans Tracking Iranian Forces”
August 19, 2007

Associated Press

Dallas News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BAGHDAD — American forces are tracking about 50 members of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters, a top U.S. general said Sunday. The French foreign minister, meanwhile, arrived in Baghdad on a groundbreaking visit after years of icy relations with the United States over Iraq.”