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February 15, 2017       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/14/iran-growing-network-to-train-foreign-terrorists-d/

Iran Establishes Network to Train Foreign Terrorists

(Washington Times) Rowan Scarborough - Iran has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of 14 training bases for foreign fighters, the National Council of Resistance of Iran said Tuesday in Washington, specifying the camps' locations and the countries represented. The council said Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has approved a directorate inside the Revolutionary Guards' Quds force "to expand its training of foreign mercenaries as part of the regime's strategy to step up its meddling abroad, including in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan and elsewhere." "Every month, hundreds of forces from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Lebanon...receive military training and are subsequently dispatched to wage terrorism and war." Some Quds graduates have shown up on the U.S. doorstep in Latin America.

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