In reply to a question about Iran’s involvement in Iraq and how it should be dealt by the United States, Sen. Clinton specified that the IRGC is a terrorist force and the arm of Iran’s leader.

The Washington Post website cited her as saying: Now, you know, I’ve took a lot of criticism during this campaign from my opponent because I voted for a bill to label the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. And I did, because it is. And there isn’t any doubt that it is. And that it has consistently supported all kinds of fighters within Iraq who have killed Americans.
They have trained people how to make the explosively formed penetrators that are so lethal to our troops. And they have provided a lot of technical assistance and there isn’t much doubt in my mind that they were deeply involved in some capacity in what’s been going on in Basra.
And, you know, because I voted that way to say, “Look, we have to focus on the threat posed by the Revolutionary Guard,” which is the arm of the clerical leadership and which does export terrorism, you know, not just to Iraq, but we believe was behind the bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires, behind actions in other parts of the Middle East and the Gulf including, probably, Kobart Towers where we lost American service members and many other sightings…
We have so many difficult problems awaiting us and Iran is at the top of the list. And I think that we have to have a much smart approach…
Because ultimately, if we do feel that Iran is moving in a way that, for example, will result in nuclear weapons — you know, they had a big announcement of more centrifuges at Natanz — if we believe that’s happening, the world has to have seen us attempting some kind of diplomatic effort before we were to say we would escalate our relationship with them…