Iran is financing, training and supplying advanced arms to some 40 radical Islamist militia groups from the Middle East to Horn of Africa, many of them engaged in terrorist activities.
A handout picture made available by the Iranian presidential office on February 2, 2024 shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visiting the Iranian revolutionary guards corps navy base in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. "here is no group affiliated with the Islamic Republic or Iran’s Armed Forces, whether in Iraq, Syria, or elsewhere that operates directly or indirectly under the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran or acts on its behalf.
The research estimated the combined number of the 12 militias’ fighters at between 124,000 and 198,000. In nine of the 12, Iran’s control over the militias is “strong,” and in the remaining three it’s “moderate,” the CFR asserted.One of them, Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and militia group, is notorious for its involvement in acts of terrorism.
The U.S. State Department estimated that Hezbollah receives approximately $700 million a year from Iran. Tehran has also provided around $100 million annually to Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Since the early 1990s, Iran, through the IRGC, has supported and trained such violent groups as Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah, Bahrain's Saraya al Ashtar militant group, and Palestinian Hamas.
Between 2012 and 2023, the Iranian regime spent more than $16 billion backing Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and proxy militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, the
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