Reza Shafa
In the afternoon of November 13, a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site in southern outskirts of Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured. The blaze which followed the explosion reminded everyone that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is going full steam ahead with its quest for WMD. Shrapnel coming off the missiles stored in the huge storage spaces especially built for the purpose, set on fire eight other places and sent columns of debris  and smoke into the air.

Shahab Sariri
It was a real shocker to the clerical regime in Iran when the Bush administration blacklisted the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and accused its elite Quds Force of supporting terrorism. The silence of the high ranking clerics in Tehran for several days was the proof of that. It was not until the passing of five days that Ali Khamenei appeared in public to alleviate the anxiety of the clerical establishment’s shrinking ideological base.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in a statement said the Iranian people welcome the US government’s official acknowledgment of the terrorist conduct of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Qods Force, banks, Ministry of Defense and other entities as well as its leaders. She also described the move as indispensable to thwart the export of terrorism and fundamentalism to the Middle East region, in particular the regime’s meddling in Iraq and to prevent the regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.