Iran has long made use of ideologically committed non-Iranian Shia to further their own foreign policy objectives, writes Abdulrazaq [Reuters] In a surprising moment of transparency and clarity, one of Iran’s former most senior military leaders confirmed that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Pasdaran in Persian, had established a “Shia Liberation Army” (SLA). Speaking to the Mashre
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