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Topic: Mohammad Ali Jafari

January 23, 2013
7:45 pm

An Iranian warship in the Strait of Hormuz (illustrative photo: Alex Hicks, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims control of Hormuz

Top commander says Islamic Republic runs shipping in strategic gateway for fifth of world’s oil

November 23, 2012
7:44 pm

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23 (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Salem)

Gaza’s mideast suitors

Hamas’s big brothers, Qatar and Iran, are pulling the Strip’s rulers in opposite directions

By Brian Murphy

November 21, 2012
5:53 pm

An Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza, Saturday, November 17, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

Iran says it supplied Hamas with long-range missile technology

Tehran provided Gaza fighters with information necessary to produce their own Fajr-5 rockets, Revolutionary Guard head announces

By AP and Elhanan Miller

October 14, 2012
5:03 pm

The guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transit the Strait of Hormuz (photo credit: CC BY Official U.S. Navy Imagery)

Iran may induce ‘environmental disaster’ in Strait of Hormuz, Der Spiegel reports

Secret plan — dubbed ‘Murky Waters’ — would reportedly force West to participate in cleanup, ease sanctions

By Raphael Ahren

October 13, 2012
11:16 am

Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari holds a press conference in Tehran in September (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran hints at responsibility for drone over Israel

Revolutionary Guards commander says the Islamic Republic has reached a level of ‘strategic deterrence’

By Yoel Goldman and Greg Tepper

September 28, 2012
5:06 pm

Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Eshaq Al-e-Habib (photo credit: Image capture from YouTube video uploaded by UpdatesWorldNews)

‘Iran reserves right to retaliate with full force against attack,’ UN envoy says

Eshaq Al-e-Habib says Israeli officials ‘are so rude,’ calls Israel the ‘founding father of state-terrorism’

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 22, 2012
2:11 pm

Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, attends a press conference in Tehran earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

War with ‘cancerous tumor Israel’ will eventually happen, says Iranian general

Commander of Revolutionary Guard Mohammad Ali Jafari claims Iran will ‘destroy the Jewish state’

By Yoel Goldman

September 17, 2012
5:29 pm

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman (photo credit: Lawrence Jackson/Official White House Photo)

Lebanon demands clarification from Iran over general’s comments

Chief of Revolutionary Guard said Islamic Republic has ‘high-level advisers’ in Lebanon and Syria

September 16, 2012
1:55 pm

Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, attends a press conference in Tehran earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Revolutionary Guard chief threatens Israel’s annihilation in case of Iran strike

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari says international oil trade at risk if US attacks, reckons neither country will make a move

August 3, 2012
8:12 pm

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander Mohammad Al Jafari (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)

Revolutionary Guards Commander: Economic sanctions against Iran are working

Ali Jafari cites viruses, spyware, espionage, and the sale of faulty equipment as part of the West’s ‘soft war’ against Iran

By Michal Shmulovich