Talk:Iranian external operations

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 10:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Iran uses criminal networks in foreign countries to execute its political and security interests?

• Source: https://icct.nl/publication/iranian-external-operations-europe-criminal-connection

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c308p0rjq9zo

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/iranexternalops/

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Created by BasselHarfouch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

BasselHarfouch (talk) 15:19, 7 July 2025 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems: - n

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - n
• Neutral: - n
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - n
• Other problems: - n

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - n

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Really sorry, but it looks like this article needs quite a lot more work before it can be shown on the main page. There are numerous issues outlined on the page. I can see there's a lot of unnecessary detail in the page which should be trimmed and cut, and the background section should be expanded, like why they're conducting these operations, countries it operates in most frequently; basically, just make it so that some guy who knows absolutely nothing about Iran would be able to follow along and read the article and comprehend it. There's a lot of errors in the citations. There is also some close paraphrasing which I think can be avoided. jolielover♥talk 18:26, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

@Jolielover: Thank you for your comments, i find them very helpful, i will do my best to upgrade the artcile.

Article improvements

Hello Cyfraw

Thank you very much for your comments, help and improvement of the article. As you saw i nominated it for "Did you know?" and got several rejects. Following your great help, do you think the article is ready for it? BasselHarfouch (talk) 06:23, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

No, but you have to work hard on it. Try your best in solving the DYK issues before its ready. Also include reliable sources as well. --cyrfaw (talk) 17:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your help and edits, i will work on it BasselHarfouch (talk) 06:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Is this neutral

These attempts were linked to Polisario Front, an Iranian proxy based in West Africa. I'm just not sure. ~ Sheminghui.WU (talk) 01:17, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

What is the scope of this article?

Iran is currently conducting major operations in Israel and Gulf countries (including missile attacks) – are those included too? VR _{(Please ping on reply)} 19:58, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Actually, this should be merged with Iran and state-sponsored terrorism. VR _{(Please ping on reply)} 15:10, 6 April 2026 (UTC)