Iran-supported militant groups and organizations
Iran using militant groups and organizations in Middle East and Africa for it's national interests.
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Iran using militant groups and organizations in Middle East and Africa for it's national interests.
From Western Sahara to Pakistan, Iran-supported groups operating extensively. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) supporting this groups administratively, politically, militarily and financially.
Mepa News Academy team listed Iran-supported militant groups and organizations. In this study, multiple global and local academic sources researched.
Syria:
Liwa al-Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba
Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi
Liwa Abu Fadl al-Abbas
Saraya al-Jihad
Liwa Imam al-Hussein
Liwa Assad Allah al-Ghalib
Saraya al-Mukhtar
Liwa al-Youm al-Maw'ud
Syrian Hezbollah
Al-Ghaliboun
Fawj al-Imam al-Hujja
Harakat al-Nujaba-Liwa al-Hamd
Liwa al-Sayyida Ruqayya
Junud al-Mahdi
Kata'ib al-Sabirun
Liwa al-Imam al-Baqir
Liwa al-Imam Zain al-Abidin
Liwa al-Imam al-Mahdi
Liwa al-Mu'ammal
Liwa Zulfiqar
Saraya al-Khorasani
Al-Muqawama al-Wataniyya al-Aqaidiyya
Rapid Intervention Regiment (Fawj Tadkhoul al-Sari')
Hezbollah Movement
Quwat al-Ridha
Fawj Sayyidah Zaynab
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Liwa Assad Allah al-Ghalib
Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Badr Organization
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Liwa Zainebiyoun
Liwa Fatemiyoun
Liwa al-Quds
Palestine Liberation Army
Fatah al-Intifada
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
Quwat al-Jalil (Galilee Forces)
Iraq:
al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces)
Badr Organization
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Harakat al-Nujaba
Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Kata'ib Jund al-Imam
Liwa al-Muntazar
Saraya Ashura
Liwa Karbala
Liwa Ali al-Akbar
Saraya al-Jihad
Al-Abbas Fighting Division (Firqa Abbas al-Qitaliyyah)
Abu Fadl al-Abbas
Harakat al-Abdal
Liwa Ansar al-Marja'iyya
Liwa Salah al-Din
Kirkuk Hashd
Quwat Ahrar al-Iraq
Fursan Al-Jubur
Liwa Muntazir
Jaysh al-Mu'ammal
Liwa al-Tafuf
Quwat al-Shaheed al-Sadr
Saraya Khorasani
Liwa al-Taff
Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda
Imam Ali Fighting Division (Firqa Imam Ali al-Qitaliyyah)
Quwat Zaynab al-Kubra
Ansar Allah al-Awfiya
Kata'ib al-Difa' al-Muqaddas
Kata'ib al-Ghadab
Liwa Mujahideen al-Iraq
Kata'ib Ansar al-Hijja
Liwa Shabak
Quwat Wa'ad Allah
Faylaq al-Wa'ad al-Sadiq
Kata'ib al-Imam al-Gha'ib
Kata'ib al-Tayyar al-Risali
Liwa al-Hussein
Palestine:
Sabireen Movement
Hamas
Islamic Jihad Movement
Palestine Liberation Army
Fatah al-Intifada
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
Quwat al-Jalil (Galilee Forces)
Liwa al-Quds
Free Palestine Movement
Lebanon:
Hezbollah Movement
Afghanistan:
Jabha-ye Moqawamat
Liwa Fatemiyoun
Hezbe Wahdat
Afghan Hezbollah
Local Hazara militant groups
Pakistan:
Liwa Zainebiyoun
Imamia Students Organization
Sipah-e-Muhammad
Tehrik-e-Jafaria
Kurram based Shia militant groups
Shia Ulema Council
Lashkar-e-Mahdi-Lashkar-e-Hussein
Bahrain:
Saraya al Ashtar
Saraya al Mukhtar
Saraya al Kasar
Saraya Waad Allah
Saraya al Muqawama al Shabiya
Saudi Arabia:
Hezbollah al Hejaz
Qatif Uprising
Yemen:
Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis)
Nigeria:
Islamic Movement in Nigeria
Morocco (Western Sahara):
Polisario Front
Notes:
Syria:
These groups' home bases are in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan but they are operating in Syria.
Palestine:
There is only one group in Palestine which affiliated with Iran directly and that group is Gaza based Sabireen Movement. Other groups are not linked with Iran directly but Iran supporting them politically, militarily and financially.
Saudi Arabia:
Qatif Uprising is ongoing in the west of the country where Shia minority live. There is no group which command this uprising directly. But it's known that Iran is supporting Qatif Uprising.
Morocco (Western Sahara):
It is claimed that Polisario Front have close links with Iran. On May 2018, Morocco severed diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran's arms support for the Polisario Front.
Afghanistan and Pakistan:
Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun are composed from Afghan Hazara and Pakistani Shia, to operate in Syria.
Sources: Mepa News Academy, Tracking Terrorism, Combating Terrorism Center, Middle East Institute, Hudson Institute, Global Security, Afghanistan Analysts Network, Washington Institute, Aymenn Jawad, Jihad Intel