Commander-in-chief of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, greets Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy Secretary General of Lebanon Hezbullah, in Tehran on Friday.

—BBC NEWS VIDEO: United States considers blacklisting the 125,000-strong Iranian Republican Guard, Aug. 16, 00:01:55

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Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Secretary of the Iranian Guardian Council, Says to the United States 'Invade us, if you dare.' Feb. 10. [CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH]





Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, looks over his forces, incuding the Revolutionary Guard, at a military academy graduation ceremony last year. That Guard Chief Major General Safavi, behind him and to his left.