Biker gangs and hired hands: how Iran is increasingly outsourcing its terror campaigns
Experts see potential hallmarks of Iranian involvement in firebombing of four ambulances in Golders Green on Monday Middle East crisis – live updates To some it was the moment the mask slipped. Wearing an open-necked white shirt, Mohsen Rafighdoost, former minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was filmed last March fondly reminiscing with an interviewer from the Tehran-based Didban Iran news website about the assassinations he had organised around Europe. There was Prince Shahriar Shafiq, the last Shah of Iran’s 34-year-old nephew, who was shot twice in the head outside his mother’s home in Paris in 1979. Continue reading...