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Unit 840
Unit 840 is a covert operational unit within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, responsible for conducting clandestine operations outside of Iran. The unit has been linked to assassination plots, terrorist activities, and destabilization efforts targeting Iranian dissidents, Israeli interests, and Western allies across the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Overview Unit 840 operates under the Quds Force, the external operations wing of the IRGC, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and several other countries. The unit is believed to focus on intelligence gathering, recruitment, and execution of covert missions, including targeted assassinations and kidnappings. Leadership and key figures As of 2025, Unit 840 is led by Yazdan Mir (alias Sardar Bagheri), who oversees the unit's clandestine operations globally. One of its top Commanders is Mohammad Reza Ansari (aliases: Barkirsaghi, Mostafa Naser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamed Abdollahi
Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (): # (Arabic: ''ḥāmed'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises". # (Arabic: ''ḥamīd'') also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy". Given name Hamid * Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (born 1945), Iranian historian * Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (born 1988), Iranian futsal player * Hamid Ahmadieh (born 1953), Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist * Hamid Al Shaeri (born 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician * Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist *Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander *Hamid Berhili (born 1964), Moroccan boxer * Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist * Hamid Chitchian (born 1957), Iranian politician *Hamid Drake (born 1955), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babak J
Babak or Babek may refer to: People * Papak or Babak (c. 222), Persian prince and father (or stepfather) of Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire * Babak (Sasanian general) (6th century) * Babak Khorramdin (c. 795/798–838), Iranian rebel leader Places * Babek (city), Babek Rayon, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan ** Babek Rayon, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan * Babak, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran * Babak, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Babak Fort or Babak Castle, northwestern Iran * Shahr-e Babak County Shahr-e Babak County () is in Kerman Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the dist ..., Kerman Province, Iran ** Shahr-e Babak, capital of the county * Babak River, a river in Lombok, Indonesia Other uses * Babak (given name) * ''Babek'' (film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bochum
Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federal state, and the 16th-largest city in Germany. On the Ruhr Heights () hill chain, between the rivers Ruhr to the south and Emscher to the north (tributaries of the Rhine), it is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and belongs to the region of Arnsberg. There are nine institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the Ruhr University Bochum (), one of the ten largest universities in Germany, and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences (). Geography Geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen
Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top 4 German metropolitan regions, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Because of its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital". Two rivers flow through the city: the Emscher in the north, and in the south the Ruhr (river), Ruhr River, which is dammed in Essen to form the and reservoirs. The central and northern boroughs of Essen historically belong to the Low German Westphalian dialects area, and the south of the city to the Low Franconian Bergish dialects, Bergish ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramin Yektaparast
Ramin Yektaparast, (March 1, 1988 – April 2024 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) was a German-Iranian individual with a complex and controversial history that died in April 2024 in Iran. Career Yektaparast began his career in the criminal underworld as a nightclub bouncer and security guard. He initially joined the "Bandidos" gang and quickly rose through the ranks of various motorcycle gangs becoming president of the Leverkusen Bandidos chapter in 2011. He later joined the Hells Angels, becoming president of the "MG City" charter in Mönchengladbach. He was implicated in several serious crimes, including the murder and dismemberment of a fellow gang member named Kai M., suspected of being a police informant Running a brothel in Leverkusen from July 2009 to November 2010. Connection to Iran & terror In 2021, Yektaparast fled to Iran to escape prosecution for his alleged crimes in Germany. While in Iran, he reportedly became involved with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bank
The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant region of West Asia, it is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel (via the Green Line (Israel), Green Line) to the south, west, and north. Since 1967, the territory has been under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Israeli occupation, which has been Legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, regarded illegal under the law of the international community. The territory first emerged in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a region occupied and subsequently Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, annexed by Jordan. Jordan ruled the territory until the 1967 Six-Day War, when it was occupied by Israel. Since then, Israeli Civil Administration, Israel has administered the West Bank (ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Jihad Organization
The Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO; (OJI); ) was a Lebanese Shia Muslims, Lebanese Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War. The organization, advocating for the withdrawal of all Americans from Lebanon, claimed responsibility for a number of kidnappings, assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, bombing of the barracks of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and that 1983 United States embassy bombing, of the United States embassy in Beirut. Adam Shatz described Islamic Jihad as "a precursor to Hezbollah, which did not yet officially exist" at the time of the bombing it took credit for. Origins Possibly formed in early 1983 and reportedly led by Imad Mughniyah, a former Shia Islam in Lebanon, Lebanese Shi'ite member of Palestinian people, Palestinian Fatah's Force 17, the IJO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamas
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (the Arabic acronym from ), is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islam, Sunni Islamism, Islamist political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has Gaza Strip under Hamas, governed the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. The Hamas movement was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupied territories, Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. In the 2006 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Palestinian legislative election, Hamas secured a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council by campaigning on promises of a corruption-free government and advocating for resistance as a means to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. In the Battle of Gaza (2007), Battle of Gaza, Hamas seized control of the Gaza S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is located along the country's western border within the Jordan Rift Valley. Jordan has a small coastline along the Red Sea in its southwest, separated by the Gulf of Aqaba from Egypt. Amman is the country's capital and List of cities in Jordan, largest city, as well as the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, most populous city in the Levant. Inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period, three kingdoms developed in Transjordan (region), Transjordan during the Iron Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century BC, the Arab Nabataeans established Nabataean Kingdom, their kingdom centered in Petra. The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman period saw the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Defence Forces
The National Defense Forces (NDF; ''Quwāt ad-Difāʿ al-Watanī'') was a Syrian paramilitary volunteer militia, that was formed on 1 November 2012 and organized by Ba'athist Syria during the Syrian civil war as a part-time volunteer reserve component of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces. The NDF was made of units across various Syrian provinces, each of them consisting of local volunteers willing to fight against rebels for various reasons. Formation By the beginning of 2013, the Syrian government took steps to formalize and professionalize hundreds of Popular Committees (Syria), Popular Committee militias under a new group dubbed the National Defense Forces.Will Fulton, Joseph Holliday, and Sam Wyer''Iranian Strategy in Syria'', Institute for the Study of War, May 2013 The goal was to form an effective, locally based, highly motivated force out of pro-government militias. The NDF, in contrast with the Shabiha forces, received salaries and military equipment from the government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
