gly strained relationship between Saudi Arabia and Hamas, and it took advantage to increase funding and weapons supplies to the group. Forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, along with Hezbollah, worked with Hamas to expand the group's weapons arsenal and build elaborate tunnels under the Gaza Strip to faci

losive belts at the public ceremony in the southeastern town of Kerman, where crowds were commemorating the death of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, who was killed in January 2020 by a U.S. airstrike. According to Iranian authorities, officials are investigating the blasts and h

t it is the only country in the region to have deployed forces on the ground in Syria, most notably EFTA_R1_02206843 EFTA02722147 personnel from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Qods Force, who have been advising and supporting the Assad regime. Zarif and Syrian foreign minister Walid Mouallem's recent collective vis