Iran’s Emissaries of Terror () von NCRI U.S. Representative Office

Summary

Introduction

Chapter One: A Moribund Regime Resorts
to Terrorism to Target Its Opposition

• Upsurge in terrorist operations in the West
• Tehran sets its sights on MEK in Albania
• Bomb plot against Resistance rally in Paris
• U.S. Congress reacts to Paris bombing plot
• Terrorists arrested plotting U.S. operations
• Assassination plot in Denmark
• EU nations take action

Chapter Two: Tehran’s Embassies, HQs for Terrorism

• Albania
• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey

Chapter Three: Foreign Ministers and Foreign Ministry’s Role in Terrorist Operations

• A key component of mullahs’ terror apparatus
• Terror operations surge under Mohammad Javad Zarif
• Foreign Ministry’s links to the Quds Force

Chapter Four: Terrorist Decision-Making in Tehran

• Role of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
  • The Special Affairs Office of the Supreme Leader
• Other key decision-making and executive agencies for terrorism
  • Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)
  • Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)
  • IRGC Quds Force
  • IRGC Intelligence Organization (IIO)

Chapter Five: IRGC and MOIS,
Terror Partners

• The IRGC as the MOIS’ Godfather
• Ministry of Intelligence in the cabinet
• Majid Alavi: Swinging between MOIS and IRGC
• Mullah Hossein Taeb: Former MOIS Deputy and Current IRGC Intelligence Chief

Chapter Six: Iran’s Terror Masterminds

• Reza Amiri Moqaddam
• Assadollah Assadi
• Gholamhossein Mohammadnia 4
• Mostafa Roudaki
• Mohammad Ali Arzpeima Nemati

Chapter Seven: Terrorists Promoted in Iran

• Mohammad Jafari Sahraroudi
• Anis al-Naqqash
• Kazem Darabi
• Ghafour Darjazi

Policy Recommendations

Appendix

Endnotes

List of Publications

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