Iran Intelligence Community refers to 16 separate active

intelligence agencies An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives. Means of inf ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. To conduct activities, Intelligence Coordinating Council or ICC () was created which is made up of agency heads. Presence of 16 agencies was announced for the first time by the

Fars News Agency The Fars News Agency is a news agency in Iran managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one of the three branches of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. While it describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency" ...

in 2014.

Members

* Ministry of Intelligence, is main intelligence organization working under

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

. The

report names four other agencies as: *

Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps () is an Iranian intelligence agency within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and part of Council for Intelligence Coordination. The Intelligence Organization of the Is ...

Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (, ''Sazman-e Hefazat-e Sepah'') is an Iranian intelligence agency within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and part of Council for Intelligence Coordina ...

* Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Republic Army * Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Republic Police An illustration published alongside the article, reveals insignia of other agencies as: *

Intelligence Protection Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran Army Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (), acronymed SAHEFAJA (), is a military intelligence agency with a mission to perform counterespionage measures inside the army in order to prevent, discover and neutrali ...

* * The Commander-in-Chief's General Bureau for Intelligence Protection () * Intelligence Protection Organization of the Armed Forces General Headquarters () * Cyber Police *

Iranian Public Security Police Public Security Police of FARAJA (, ''Polis-e Amniat-e Omumi-ye Faraja'') or simply Security Police (, ''Polis-e Amniat''), is a domestic security agency and law enforcement agency in Iran. The agency a subdivision of Law Enforcement Force of Isla ...

* Center for Investigating Organized Crime

References

Intelligence communities Iranian intelligence agencies Iranian security organisations {{Iran-mil-stub

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