By: Reza Shafa
According to a classified report prepared by the office of the Iranian regime’s Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a new project is unfolding by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IGRC) in neighboring Afghanistan. To make life harder for U.S. troops on the ground in that country, IRGC is busy planning for new tactics since last year. Using IRGC’s experiences in Lebanon as a blueprint, the plan involves creating front entities such as humanitarian organizations, construction companies, workshops, etc.
To make the plan work, Khatme Base, IRGC’s Eastern Command went into action. IRGC is trying to cover its real intentions by pretending to have been involved in rebuilding projects such as construction of major highways, hospitals, and power plants among other things in that country. The war torn nation is desperately in need of such fundamental reconstructions.
IRGC is dispatching some of its most trained personnel in disguise as ordinary laborers, engineers, physicians, nurses, contractors and other professionals to Iran’s eastern neighbor.
There are other ways mentioned in the classified report which will be presented in form of suggestions to Afghan government such as:
-Training Afghan anti-narcotic units by the regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) which will give an opportunity to enlist new agents among the perspective trainees;
-Dispatching some 2,000 new recruits from Afghan refugees under the pretext of deporting illegal aliens to their country. To make certain that the so-called refugees will carry out their missions once on the Afghan soil, members of their families are kept in Iran, most likely their Iranian wives, as collateral for successful completion of their assignments.
IRGC’s plan for Afghanistan is put together by such commanders as Brig. Gen. Mohammad Jafari Sahraroudi – who is just back from the conference in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt – and happened to have commanded Khatme Base for years in his capacity as one of the most ruthless IRGC’s top leadership echelons.
But make no mistakes; the mullahs are just shedding crocodile tears for Afghans. The regime is trying vehemently to find a foothold in the tribal country with very rugged terrains. It is trying to make life as miserable as possible for the U.S. troops to take the heat off itself in Iraq.
Reza Shafa is an expert on the Iranian regime’s intelligence networks, both in Iran and abroad. He has done extensive research on VAVAK (MOIS), IRGC’s Intelligence Office, and Quds Force among others. Currently he is a contributor to NCRI website.
