“... The IRGC’s overall presence inside Yemen is overseen by Gen. Abdul Reza Shahlai, a Tehran-based commander whom the Trump administration attempted to assassinate in a 2020 drone strike inside Yemen, U.S. and Mideast officials said. American intelligence believes Shahlai is deeply involved in Tehran’s overseas terrorist operations through his role as the Qods Force’s deputy commander.
This includes a role in overseeing an unsuccessful 2011 Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s then-ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, at a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Shahlai, who’s been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, also helped oversee IRGC attacks against U.S. military personnel in Iraq over the past two decades. The Department of Justice offered $15 million in 2019 for information related to the commander’s operations and networks.....”
In the 2011 plot to blow up the restaurant in Washington DC, the Iranian now in charge of Yemen operations, Abdul Reza Shahlai, was in contact with the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas.
Speaking of Iran’s current commander in Yemen, Abdul Reza Shahlai:
Iranian Murders in the West
Weekly Standard ^ | Oct 18, 2011 | Stephen Schwartz
Posted on 10/19/2011, 8:00:30 AM by nuconvert
Americans were stunned on October 11 when the Justice Department unsealed its complaint against Mansour Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old used-car dealer from Corpus Christi now in federal custody, and Ali Gholam Shakuri, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force. Shakuri remains inside Iran. The pair have been charged with conspiring to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Adel Al-Jubeir.
As disclosed by the Treasury Department, the plot was coordinated by Arbabsiar’s cousin, Abdul Reza Shahlai, a top Quds Force functionary whom the Treasury designated in 2008 as one of several “individuals and entities fueling violence in Iraq.” Shahlai was described then as the planner of “special group attacks” by the Mahdi Army, headed by Moktada Al-Sadr, against Coalition forces on the territory of Iran’s western neighbor....
Liberals love to use foreign words and names. They also periodically change the spelling and pronunciation of those words just to make themselves sound smart. The Qods Force used to be called the Quds Force. Why is Pakistan now pronounced Pockeeston while Offgoneeston is pronounced Affganistan? They love to talk about Erdogan who really is not that important in the world but has a cool name. Remember Achmedinijad? His name was a real tongue twister but you could become a host of the Today Show if you could pronounce it correctly. I think Khomeini came to power because his name was more exotic than Shah. Obama was a very different name from Smith and Jones, or Bush or Clinton.