[UPI] Claude Salhani - According to the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Iran's al-Quds force is heavily involved in training Iraqi death squads and militias. The group accuses the Iranian regime of secretly engaging in "the organization and training of large Iraqi terrorist networks in Iran and sending them back to Iraq." The Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has allocated bases in Tehran, Karaj, Qom, and Isfahan, as well as in provinces close to the Iraqi border such as Kermanshah, Ilam, Kurdistan, and Khuzestan, to train death squads and terrorist networks. Training includes urban guerilla warfare, instruction on use of light and semi-heavy weapons, mortars, missiles, sniping techniques, use of explosives, and firing shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles. The Iraqi militias are trained under the command of IRGC Brig.-Gen. Mohammad Shahlaei, a veteran commander of the Quds Force in the Ramezan base.
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