The U.S. State Department has reportedly launched an inquiry into an allegation
that Qatar’s royal family has supplied funds to Iran’s Islamic Revolut


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U.S. Investigating Qatar For Alleged IRGC Financing

 

(New York, N.Y.) – The U.S. State Department has reportedly launched
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an inquiry into an allegation that Qatar’s royal family has supplied funds to
Iran’sIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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(IRGC), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The
investigation into Qatar’s alleged terror finance activities wasreportedly
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opened after President Joe Biden was briefed on the intelligence last month by
Israeli leaders at the White House.

 

The IRGC is responsible for killing more than 600
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American military personnel. Pro-Iran militias tied to the IRGC have also
repeatedly attacked U.S. and allied forces in the region, and a November 2019
Fox Newsreport
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claimedQatar <[link removed]> had advance
knowledge of an Iranian attack on four commercial vessels in the Gulf of Oman
on May 12, 2019, and may have failed to warn its U.S., French, and British
allies. “Credible intelligence reports indicate that the IRGC-Quds Forces Naval
unit is responsible for the Fujairah Port attacks, and the elements of civilian
government of Iran, as well as the State of Qatar, were aware of the IRGC’s
activities,” the report said.

 

Qatari financial support to the IRGC would align with Qatar’s previous
positions on Iran. In 2019, Qatar joined Turkey inobjecting to the U.S.
designation
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of the IRGC as a terrorist organization. Qatar was alsoone of six nations
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chosen by the Iranian regime in December 2020 to represent the Islamic
Republic in an international legal dispute against the United States for the
January 2020 assassination of IRGC-Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. Former
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani alsopaid a $57 million ransom
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to Syrian militias for the release of captured IRGC fighters in 2012.

 

To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s Qatar resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) resource, please click
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