Confronting the Epicenter of Terrorism and Warmongering
Last updated 13 September 2025
From the early days of his rule, Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian regime, imposed a repressive theocracy on the people of Iran. His reactionary and warmongering policies plunged vast parts of the Middle East into chaos, insecurity, and bloodshed—an ongoing legacy.
After the devastating eight-year war with Iraq (1980–1988), which claimed the lives of one million Iranians, the regime established the Quds Force, a division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Quds Force is tasked with orchestrating terrorism and fueling conflicts across the region, including in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Palestine. The Quds Force had dedicated a specialized unit to each of these countries.
The Iranian regime employs a duplicitous strategy: while its proxies launch attacks and receive financial, logistical, and military support from Tehran, the regime denies direct involvement, feigning innocence and claiming that these groups act independently. This duplicity aims to prolong its survival and position the regime to ignite further conflicts in the future.
In October 2023, on the first day of the new Middle Eastern conflict, the Iranian Resistance declared that the Iranian regime was the head of the snake of warmongering in the region. Confronted with the nationwide uprisings of 2022 and teetering on the brink of collapse, the regime took recourse to an external conflict to prevent the outbreak of another uprising and its overthrow by the Iranian people and Resistance.
The objective of Ali Khamenei, the mullahs’ supreme leader, in fomenting war, is to delay the regime’s downfall at the hands of the Iranian people and their organized resistance.
For years, the Iranian Resistance has urged regional nations to unite with Iran’s people and its organized resistance to form a common front against the regime. Such unity is essential for liberating both Iran and the region from the scourge of the clerical regime’s religious extremism, terrorism, and warmongering.
Just as the Iranian people cannot achieve freedom and democracy without overthrowing the regime, the region and the world cannot attain peace and stability unless the epicenter of terrorism and conflict—the clerical regime in Tehran—is confronted.
To achieve this:
1. The IRGC must be officially designated as a terrorist organization.
2. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which advocates for a free and democratic Iran, must be recognized as a legitimate alternative to the regime that advocates friendship, unity, and peace, offering hope for a brighter future for Iran and the world.
New Revelation by the Iranian Resistance on the Regime’s Terror Network
In a new revelation, the Iranian Resistance has unveiled the command structure of the clerical regime’s overseas terrorism.
Presented at a press conference in Washington on August 7, 2025, this revelation underscores that Ali Khamenei, as the regime’s Supreme Leader, sits at the apex of its decision-making apparatus for orchestrating acts of terror.
Examples of Exposed Terrorist Operations
• Assassination Attempt on Professor Alejo Vidal-Quadras:
Spanish police investigations reveal that the November 2023 attempted assassination of Professor Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former Vice President of the European Parliament, was carried out by a criminal network linked to the Iranian regime. His name had been placed at the top of the regime’s blacklist.
• Foiled Plots:
Schemes such as the planned 2018 bombing of the NCRI Gathering in Villepinte, Paris—targeting Mrs. Maryam Rajavi—and the attack on the PMOI headquarters in Albania illustrate the far-reaching scope of the regime’s terrorist activities.
• Assassination of Professor Kazem Rajavi
On April 24, 1990, Professor Kazem Rajavi was assassinated near Geneva by agents of the Iranian regime.
• Assassination of Mohammad Hossein Naqdi
In a meticulously planned operation on Italian soil, Mohammad Hossein Naqdi—the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s representative in Italy—was targeted after years of political activity and broad advocacy for the Iranian Resistance. Acting on a religious decree authorizing his killing, the regime dispatched multiple hit teams and ultimately murdered him in Rome in March 1993.
Investigations exposed the direct involvement of the Iranian regime’s embassy and Ministry of Intelligence, and an Italian court compiled a 3,000-page case against the perpetrators and masterminds. This crime stands as a stark example of the regime’s use of diplomatic cover to carry out terrorism on European soil.
Iranian Resistance Calls for Action Against State Terrorism
At the Washington conference, the Iranian Resistance once again underscored the urgent measures required to confront the clerical dictatorship’s terrorism:
• Closure of Embassies and Regime-Affiliated Centers:
All embassies, diplomatic missions, and the regime’s cultural and religious centers abroad must be shut down.
• Terrorist Designation of the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC:
The Ministry of Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as the regime’s principal terrorist arms, must be designated as terrorist entities by Europe and other nations.
• Expulsion of Operatives and Proxies:
All agents, mercenaries, and unofficial lobbyists facilitating the regime’s terrorist activities must be prosecuted, penalized, and expelled.
• UN Sanctions:
The international community must impose United Nations sanctions on the regime and on Ali Khamenei as the chief patron of state-sponsored terrorism.
These revelations highlight the regime’s expanding terrorist network as a desperate attempt to offset profound internal weakness and contain regional crises.
The clerical regime’s operations target not only the Iranian opposition but also international political figures, underscoring the Iranian Resistance’s call for a firm and decisive global response.
