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President Bush and the Qods Force Controversy: Lessons Learned

President Bush and the Qods Force Controversy: Lessons Learned

March 6, 2007 | Dan Diker
Senior Israeli military and intelligence officials have with a high degree of certainty linked Iran’s senior leadership with direct involvement over the past fifteen years in Qods Force operations against Israel. The Qods Force carries out these types of military operations across the Middle East, to export the revolution and establishing an “Iranian Shiite crescent” through which Iran could assert regional hegemony.