{"id":6016,"date":"2026-07-26T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:17:33","slug":"irgc-says-it-is-targeting-us-backed-separatist-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=6016","title":{"rendered":"IRGC says it is targeting US-backed separatist groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it\u2019s moving to \u201cnip in the bud\u201d separatist and opposition groups it accuses of trying to infiltrate the country\u2019s northwest, casting recent military operations there as a pre-emptive strike against US-backed unrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IRGC spokesperson Brigadier-General Hossein Mohebbi said Tehran is alert to what he called an \u201cenemy plan\u201d to reorganise anti-government factions, including the exiled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/3\/29\/meks-violent-past-looms-over-us-lobby-for-regime-change-in-iran\">Mojahden-e-Khalq<\/a>, to reignite deadly protests that swept Iran in December and January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we are doing in the northwest is to nip them in the bud before they enter,\u201d Mohebbi told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the IRGC\u2019s focus on the Strait of Hormuz, where it has been locked in a confrontation with the United States, had not left it blind to other threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that Washington tried to send weapons to Iranian demonstrators via Kurdish intermediaries during the winter protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it\u2019s moving to \u201cnip in the bud\u201d separatist and opposition groups it accuses of trying to infiltrate the country\u2019s northwest, casting recent military&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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