Talk:Quds Force

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Contents 1 Bush Administration Allegation of Weapon Supply 2 Shiite not Sunni 3 Article Name: Quds or qods? 4 Primary task of the Quds Force

[edit] Bush Administration Allegation of Weapon Supply

Should there be some mention of the recent allegations coming from the Bush Administration on the supply of weapons and arms to the sectarian war in Iraq? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.138.78 (talk) 16:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Shiite not Sunni

Someone added two things to this article that seem to indicate slight misunderstandings of the Qods Force. Iranians are Shiites and Persians and hence the Qods Forece is MAINLY interested in helping Shiite Islamists. Iranians are primarily Shiite and the government of Iran is a Shiite government. They may, in limited circumstances help Sunnis (like Iran giving a small amount of money to the Palestinian Authority when other foreign donors were not) but they particularly focus on Shiite groups. They often work against Sunni Arabs (like the Hezbollah in Saudi Arabia that was responsible for the Khobar Towers bombing. They often help Shiite minorities in Sunni countries. In conclusion, Iran and its government and military are neither, for the most part, Arabs nor Sunnis. They often work against Sunni Arabs interests.

• Omar al-Bashir, Yahya Jammeh, Bashar al-Assad, Ismail Omar Guelleh, & many Egyptians like Chairman of the Union of Arab Lawyers Sameh 'Ashour are Sunni supporters of Iran.

[edit] Article Name: Quds or qods?

should the main name of article be quds force or qods force?Farmanesh 19:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I personally prefer "Quds" but the article was originally written with "Qods" so I figured I should not spell the word differently than the article's title. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.197.138.180 (talk) 02:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

This is really our call. It was originally entitled Qods Force because up until several months ago, most of the media referred to it as that. Now that it's been in the headlines the last month or two with regard to Iraq, it's been called Quds Force. I wouldn't be opposed to a name change, because "Qods Force" is now getting 54,000 google hits, and "Quds Force" is getting 451,000. Joshdboz 02:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

If no one debates this I will change it in the next day or two. Joshdboz 17:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I have carried out the move and fixed all double redirects. Joshdboz 16:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primary task of the Quds Force

An anonymous user has changed the main task of the Quds Force from covert and special operations to "exporting the Iranian Revolution to other countries". Since the user did in fact put in a source, I'm a hesitated to change it. Can someone varify this? --Soetermans 08:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, follow the link to the source. The general of the Joint Chiefs of Staff does, in fact, say that is their mission. It is almost a direct quote. I guess we could say that the deputy director for operations of the Joint Cheifs of Staff is not a reliable source on the mission of the Quds Force but that would be a stretch.

Notice that the third sentence in the introduction: "The primary mission of the Quds Force is to organize, train, equip, and finance foreign Islamic revolutionary movements." Isn't this just another way of saying their mission is to export Iran's Islamic revolution. In other words, if their mission is to support Islamic revolutionary movements in other countries, isn't that they same as exporting the Islamic revolution abroad? Most of the sources in the article confirm that their main mission is to support Islamic movements abroad in one way or another because they want to export and support their view of an Islamic state in other countries.