Quds Force
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Nov 6, 2026
Joe KentGUEST
But we proved the hardliners' case.
Joe KentGUEST
The hardliners for years, Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force, he had been arguing for years that you can't negotiate with the Americans.
Joe KentGUEST
You can't negotiate with the Israelis.
Joe KentGUEST
You have to hit them hard.
TishwashHOST
Yes.
TishwashHOST
The Quds Force Commander.
TishwashHOST
Kaani.
TishwashHOST
He came out after their... supreme leader supposedly posted to deal with the enemy without limits so there's the standard picture they use now i don't believe he's in baghdad i'm not exactly sure how he is expressing this these uh information but he's telling the factions everywhere to have unity through a written declaration of absolute loyalty and not to Iraq.
TishwashHOST
Okay, so then this was even on, this was Wednesday before the results were even in.
TishwashHOST
Kaani, so this was from Telegram, but I do believe, I feel strongly, but that's why I'm letting you know it's from Telegram.
TishwashHOST
It was Kaani, him, the Quds Force commander.
TishwashHOST
He said, the narcissistic U.S. president started the military campaign gamble with us.
Joe KentGUEST
But, you know, working in coordination with us was the Iraqi Shia militias, the Popular Mobilization Forces.
Joe KentGUEST
And just like the Kurds had American special forces advisors, there was Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Quds Force officers that were advising the Shia militias.
Joe KentGUEST
And we were fighting against ISIS.
Joe KentGUEST
We were calling in airstrikes and we were essentially acting as the air force for, you know, the Quds Force proxy force, which was the Shia militias.
Joe KentGUEST
And we were fighting against ISIS together.
Joe KentGUEST
Now, I think we could get back to working with them, especially in counterterrorism.
Tamir HaymanGUEST
And third, we have noticed what we call the unification of fronts.
Tamir HaymanGUEST
That is, that there is some form of an unexplained connection of lessons learned from Hamas, to Hezbollah, to the back then the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Asrallah, and from Hassan Asrallah and Hezbollah to Quds Force's leadership in Tehran.
Tamir HaymanGUEST
That triangle was noticed, but everybody worked under the assumption that the head of this triangle is in Tehran, not in Gaza City.
Tamir HaymanGUEST
According to what Sinwar thought about that triangle.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
The Iranians are preparing for the worst.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
Over the last two days, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali, oh boy, what do you pronounce, Larajani, along with a, So he, this Iranian guy, Larijani, along with a large delegation, including the commander of the Quds Force, Ishmael, here we go again, Quds
Moshe HaCohenHOST
Force.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
Q-A-A-N-I.
Brett McGurkGUEST
They can turn it on and off.
Brett McGurkGUEST
And yeah, the Houthis have their own agency, but it is Iran and the Quds Force, which has kind of organized this whole thing.
Brett McGurkGUEST
And so the kind of headquarters for all that really is Iran.
Brett McGurkGUEST
But this also brings right back to the book because Hamas, how do you deal with Hamas? Hamas is, okay, Hamas, they're the government in Gaza, right? They're a military group, but they also run every ministry.
Joe KentSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have galvanized the Iranian people.
Joe KentSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We basically have proven the point that Qasem Soleimani, the late commander of the Quds Force, was making for quite some time.
Joe KentSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
His theory of the case with us in Israel was that we couldn't be negotiated with, that we had-
Mark AdderleyHOST
So I want to pause there just for a sec.
Jonathan HackettGUEST
the other the other individuals were not right so only one of them is is charged with this 2023 uh under this 2023 law about materially assisting a foreign intelligence service that's abdul kareem the rest of them have like a variety of other lesser charges that are not so egregious so it's very fascinating to see this like multi-cell network that was stood up in about two months after the initial cell which was way more effective again i said 20 plus attacks in like five months that killed numerous like half a dozen people right if you remember like there was some some fires set that in golders green they burned the ambulances they stabbed some guys you know they're doing a lot of surveillance So that was like a better run operation.
Jonathan HackettGUEST
But a lot of IRGC case officers and handlers and Quds Force and the intelligence organization were killed in the last eight months.
Jonathan HackettGUEST
So now you're left with like the lower guys who don't have any experience.
Jonathan HackettGUEST
It's like if you were like a brand new human collector, but then all the category one top level dudes got whacked and they're like, hey, brand new guy, go run this like super sensitive operation.
ShirvanHOST
However, this would be a terribly risky move.
ShirvanHOST
Directly attacking US assets could prompt retaliation against the Iranian leadership, something akin to the January 2020 assassination of Quds Force Commander Gassim Soleimani.
ShirvanHOST
The end result could see the US Air Force doing even more damage than Israel's airstrikes.
ShirvanHOST
Another way for Iran to establish deterrence and less expected would be to strike US allies in the Gulf region.
ShirvanHOST
Critics within the Department of State predicted massive protests and violence against US personnel, but that scenario never came.
ShirvanHOST
It was true again in 2020, when Trump ordered the assassination of Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
ShirvanHOST
Analysts had predicted massive blowback, but little came of it.
ShirvanHOST
Trump's gamble had paid off, and it paid off again last June when the US joined Israel's military campaign against Iran.
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