WASHINGTON -
has a twofold purpose: to defeat insurgency inside Iran and to promote Iran's Islamic revolution in other countries through proxy forces, officials said. It has contacts with Lebanese Hezbollah, various Palestinian groups and groups in Egypt, Bahrain and Algeria.
A recent U.S. intelligence report said the unit's primary military missions are to direct or assist in the training organization arming
and activities of fundamentalist foreign nationals from Muslim countries
with the aim of overthrowing their governments and establishing regimes similar in ideology to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
One of the Egyptian groups, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, now is considered to be merged with al-Qaida.
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