The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the... Since the 1979 revolution, the Iranian regime has invited many terrorists and criminals to visit the country under the cover of Islamic conferences. Most of these conferences are held under the supervision and monitoring of the IRGC or the MOIS. During 1979-1981, some of the most prominent terrorists in the world visited Tehran. They came ostensibly to participate in Islamic conferences managed by Hussein-Ali Montazeri, an Islamic theologian and one of the most high-ranking authorities in Shiite Islam. The Islamic Conference in Sudan in the early 1990s provided cover for meetings attended by representatives of the IRGC, Hezbollah, and Osama bin Laden.