Among its many prominent military duties, the corps operates Iran’s formidable ballistic missile arsenal and oversees the Quds Force, an expeditionary arm that partners with Iran’s various ...
Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, commander of the elite Quds Force, appeared in video footage on Tuesday as Tehran braces for a possible counterstrike by Israel. By Qasim Nauman After days of speculation ...
Qaani -- who heads the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm -- had disappeared from public view and was rumoured in some media to have been targeted in an Israeli strike on ...
Here is what we know about Qaani and the Quds Force, the elite Guard unit he commands. Esmail Qaani, 67, was born in Mashhad in north-eastern Iran and fought for the Revolutionary Guard during the ...