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“If the Revolutionary Guards aren’t terrorists, who is?”

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“If the Revolutionary Guards aren’t terrorists, who is?”

This is the title of an article in The Wall Street Journal that refers to IRGC’s crimes in Lebanon and Argantina. The article partly reads:

Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral issued international arrest warrants for eight men–seven Iranians and one Lebanese–wanted in connection to the bombing. Among them are former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and three other men with one important point in common: All were, or are, senior officers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Mohsen Rezai, is among the eight whose arrest is sought by Judge Corral in connection to the 1994 attack.

The second IRGC officer involved in the 1994 attack is Ahmad Reza Asghari. According to the definitive Argentine report on the bombing, Mr. Asghari–officially the third secretary of the Iranian embassy until his abrupt departure from Argentina on July 1–was present at the Aug. 14, 1993 meeting with Mr. Rafsanjani. Mr. Asghari is described in the report on the bombing as the man “responsible for activating the clandestine networks of Iranians in Argentina.”

Then there is Ahmad Vahidi, who helped oversee the operation from Tehran. According to Iran analyst Alireza Jafarzadeh, Mr. Vahidi founded the IRGC’s “Lebanon Corps” in the 1980s, meaning he is responsible for the attack on the U.S. Marine barracks that left 241 American servicemen dead. He was later appointed the first commander of the IRGC’s Qods (Jerusalem) Force, with oversight of “extraterritorial operations,” including in Europe and South America.