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Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security Is Not Fans of the Cods Force

The new government doesn't really trust the military or the existing security apparatus. The revolutionary guard and the cods force come out as a way for the clerics to kind of have their own military and intelligence machine. iranian spies privately expressed concern that the brutal tactics favored by sullamani and his iraqi proxies were laying the groundwork for major blowback against the iranian presence in iraq. syne's blamed the iranian government for the persecution that many were suffering at the hands of these same forces.

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