Washington punished "Saraya Ashtar" .. What is its relationship with Iraq and its most prominent operations?

Washington punished "Saraya Ashtar" .. What is its relationship with Iraq and its most prominent operations?



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The US State Department has classified the Saraya Al-Ashtar group as an Iranian-backed terrorist organization in Bahrain for terrorist acts and bloody bombings.

Ashtar was classified as a terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the Foreign Office statement. The group was classified as a global terrorist organization under section 1 of Executive Order 13224.

Under these ratings, Saraya Al-Ashtar is deprived of the resources necessary to plan and carry out terrorist attacks and other sanctions, such as the ban on all US-owned property and interests, and US individuals are generally prohibited from engaging in any dealings with the organization.

In addition, the offense of attempting to provide or conspire to provide material support or resources to the buyer's secrets is considered in advance.

According to the State Department statement, the appointments support a larger campaign to deter Iran's malicious behavior and stop its support of terrorists around the world.

"Iran is using terrorist agents to expand its malign influence and disrupt international peace and stability," said Jonathan Sills, the counterterrorism coordinator, who advises that the United States clearly sees what Iran is trying to do about Bahrain through its agent, Saraya al-Ashtar.

The ministry has classified two individuals linked to the organization, Ahmed Hassan Yousef and Mr. Morteza Majid Ramadan Alawi, known as "Mortada Majid al-Sindi", as two international terrorists classified in particular in March 2017.

The group was created, according to the US State Department, in 2013, and has assassinated police officers in several attacks using bombs and weapons, pointing out that the members of the organization received weapons and explosives from Iran.

The IRGC media and even the official agencies always cover the news of Saraya al-Ashtar and the armed terrorist operations carried out by its pro-Bahraini groups, as well as the statements of the leaders of these groups about their threats to escalate the violence.

Saraya al-Ashtar is a radical Shiite organization affiliated with the radical Iranian-Shiite ideology of Iran, which sees an armed Shiite revolt as the emergence of the Hidden Imam (Mahdi).

According to the Bahraini security sources, the terrorist organization was founded in late 2012, where the two leaders in the organization, Ahmad Yousef Sarhan, whose name is Abu Muntazar and Jassim Ahmad Abdullah, whose name is Zulfiqar, are located in Iran and are involved in several terrorist cases, Items in Bahrain.

The two leaders also organized Hussein Jafar Abdullah and Fadhil Mohammed Ali, in coordination with the organization's leaders, to facilitate the travel of Abbas Hassan Ahmed Saleh and Abdullah Muhammad Abdullah Hussein to Iraq to receive military training on the manufacture of explosive devices and the use of weapons under the framework of the terrorist organization.

According to the Bahraini media, according to confessions of members of the organization of the arrested, the elements of "Saraya Al-Ashtar" received military training in Iraq by the so-called "Hezbollah Brigades", which led the Bahraini authorities summon Ahmed Nayef Rashid Al-Dulaimi, And received an official protest note against the backdrop of the arrest of a number of terrorists confessed to receiving training in Iraq.

The organization of Saraya al-Ashtar declared its adoption on January 15, 2017, in the Bani Jamra area, and resulted in the injury of a security man. He said that the operation was to warn the Bahraini authorities against the execution of members of the organization convicted by the judiciary of assassinating police officers, Including the Emirati officer.

The organization is classified as a terrorist organization in more than one Gulf country, such as Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, since 2014.

On 4 March 2014, the Bahraini Council of Ministers announced the "February 14 Coalition", "Saraya Al-Ashtar", "Resistance Brigades" and any associated group, terrorist organizations, following the escalation of bloody bombings by pro-Iranian armed groups.

The organization "Saraya Al-Ashtar" claimed responsibility for the explosion of a car by a gas cylinder placed inside and detonated near the Sheikh Isa Mosque, central Riffa, the Bahraini capital Manama, on July 17, 2013.

The Iranian regime does not conceal its explicit and public support for terrorist groups in Bahrain. Revolutionary Guards commanders have repeatedly called on pro-Tehran cells in Bahrain to launch an "armed insurgency."

In December 2016, deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hussein Salami, told the official IRNA news agency that "the victory in Aleppo is an introduction to the liberation of Bahrain," adding that Iran's expansionist project would extend to Bahrain and Yemen.

In September 2016, the secretary of Iran's Expediency Council and former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezai said that his country would not abandon its "allies in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen" and would continue to support them politically and morally, in an interview with Christine Science Monitor.

In August 2016, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Falaki, announced that his country had formed the "Shiite Liberation Army" led by Qods Force Commander Qasim Soleimani, and included elements from Bahrain, as well as elements from Syria and Iraq Lebanon, Yemen and other Shiite elements around the world.

In June 2016, the Revolutionary Guard issued a statement threatening what it called a "devastating revolution" against Bahrain because of the overthrow of the cleric, Issa Qassem, accused by the Bahraini judiciary of supporting terrorism. Violence and terrorism and the launch of what he called "armed resistance" against the government in Bahrain.

In March 2016, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, General Saeed Qasimi, demanded hostile statements to include Bahrain.

The leader of the Ansar-e-Hezbollah militia, a lobbyist linked to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, also claimed that "Bahrain is an Iranian province cut off" during a speech at a meeting in the city of Bushehr.

Since the mullahs took power in Iran in 1979, Iranian officials have occasionally called for the inclusion of Bahrain in the framework of the expansionist policies of the sectarian regime in Iran, in disregard of all international laws and norms, which call for respect for the independence and sovereignty of States, Good neighborliness and non-interference in the affairs of other countries.

Several votes have been issued by the Iranian Shura Council and several political and military figures in Tehran over the past years calling for the occupation of Bahrain, which dismantled dozens of armed cells, backed by Tehran, to destabilize security and stability.

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