Iran's Quds Force and What Israel and USA Are Doing About It

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

     Iranian Soldiers

Israel Dealing with Hezbollah of Lebanon That Hurts Iran:

 Thomas Joseph Barrack Jr. (born April 28, 1947) is an American private equity real estate investor and the founder and executive chairman of Colony Capital, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT). Barrack has for decades been a close friend of and fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump, representing him in television news appearances.  In December 2024, Barrack was nominated by then President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkey.

The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed that Qassem Al-Husseini, a Lebanese terrorist affiliated with Iran’s Quds Force, was killed in an Israeli airstrike near Beirut. Al-Husseini was a Lebanese terrorist involved in advancing terrorist plots against Israeli civilians and IDF troops on the northern front on behalf of Iran's Quds Force.                                               

Commander in Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;, June 13, 2025

The Quds Force  (lit. 'Jerusalem Force') is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It specializes in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. 

U.S. Army's Iraq War General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as an organization analogous to a combination of the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the United States.

 Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthi movement, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

Qassem played a key role in smuggling Iranian weapons through Syria into Lebanon and the West Bank, and was involved in planning terror attacks. IDF forces struck multiple Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon today.  

US envoy Thomas Barrack is in Beirut for meetings with Lebanese officials on a proposal to disarm Hezbollah.

Resource:

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/security-forces-kill-terrorist-qassem-192048015.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack