By: Reza Shafa
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its surrogate the Qods Force are busy these days expanding their warmongering strategy to Afghanistan using the mess they have already made in Iraq as a tested positive blueprint.
In a classified report leaked out of security apparatus in the mullahs’ regime, the IRGC made a proposal to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, outlining the ways in which the newly Afghan army may be infiltrated and later manipulated by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and other terrorist networks working for the IRGC-QF in the country. The recommendation clearly stresses the need for the IRGC and MOIS operatives to recruit Afghan soldiers for Taliban group.
The same method can be used to infiltrate the Afghan army from within and in a slow pace substitute the agents and operatives of the IRGC and the Qods Force, the report added.
Some of the local power brokers in Afghanistan with visible links to the IRGC and Qods Force are advertising for what they call "a strong national army." However, in reality it means opening up the newly formed army to local agents of the Qods Force and have a chaotic situation similar to what is happening in Iraq.
According to recommendations made in the report the most susceptible of all places for start would be Farah Province. Farah is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the west of the country. Its capital is Farah and it is a spacious and sparsely populated province that lies on the Iranian border.
IRGC’s local agents — in some cases they have enough influence to carry out what the Iranian regime has in mind — are pushing for a so-called strong army of 200,000 to 250,000 men. Such provocations for a populated army are made under the pretext of driving the foreign forces out. However, behind the scenes the Qods Force is following a carefully drawn plan to first get-rid of the US and other NATO forces operating in the country and then in time infiltrates its own agents into the Afghan security and military forces, described as a strategic move by the report.
As a complement to what has already been said the report suggests that the IRGC should seek to gain control of trainings of the Afghan military forces.
Separately, the mullahs’ regime stirs violence and insecurity by heavily contributing to the opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. In Farah province across border from Iran, there are workshops setup with the assistance of the Iranian regime’s agents to produce opium and its derivatives such as heroin and crystal which are widely used by drug addicts in Iran.
The Afghan Interior Minister called on Iranian officials to prevent the chemicals from flowing to the country from Iran used by drug traffickers to make heroin.
IRGC-QF has a deaf ear when it comes to following Tehran’s orders in exporting terrorism to other countries. The only way to stop the deadly force is to stand up to it.
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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.
