Council for Intelligence Coordination

Iran Intelligence Community refers to 16 separate active intelligence agencies in Iran. To conduct activities, Intelligence Coordinating Council or ICC (Persian: شورای هماهنگی اطلاعات) was created which is made up of agency heads. Presence of 16 agencies was announced for the first time by the Fars News Agency in 2014.^[1]

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Members

• Ministry of Intelligence, is main intelligence organization working under government.^[1]

The Fars News Agency report names four other agencies as:^[1]

• Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• 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:^[2]

• Intelligence Protection Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran Army
• Information Protection Organization of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Support [fa]
• The Commander-in-Chief's General Bureau for Intelligence Protection (Persian: مسئول سازمان حراست دفتر رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ایران)
• Intelligence Protection Organization of the Armed Forces General Headquarters (Persian: رئیس اداره حفاظت اطلاعات ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح)
• Cyber Police
• Iranian Public Security Police
• Center for Investigating Organized Crime

See also

• Parallel Intelligence Agency
• Ministry of Intelligence