Persian Gulf
Testimony: Iran’s Global Force Projection Network: IRGC Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah
IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, the father of Imad Mughniyeh, the former commander of Hezbollah's external operations killed in 2008, and Kazem Darabi attend a February 19, 2013 mourning ceremony for Quds Force Brigadier General Hassan Shateri in Tehran (Young Journalists' Club)
The Assassination of Iranian Quds Force General Hassan Shateri in Syria
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Iranian Influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan
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