Quds Force

11 Nov 2024 10:42:38 am

Tags : Quds Force

Topic: West Asia

Why in the news?

Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late last week.

Source: The Hindu

About Quds Force:

It is one of five branches of Iran\'s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations.
Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthi movement, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.
It reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.
In January 2020, Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed by a US airstrike on his convoy outside Baghdad International Airport.
The Quds force is run from Tehran, and has ties with armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG).

It was set up by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and Iran’s first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1979.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution dislodged the ruling Shah from power, a theocratic state was established in Iran. For its protection, the IRCG was created to deal with both domestic and external threats.
It has an army, naval, and air force wings, and its total membership numbers are around 125,000. Another branch, the Basij paramilitary force, “claims it can mobilize some six hundred thousand volunteers.

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