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Islamic Jihad (, ''Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami'') is a militant . Islamic Jihad is also a name used by various other militant groups. Since 1983, when a group calling itself "Islamic Jihad" claimed the April 1983 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut , it has been used by several other organizations. Hezbollah is believed to have used the name in the 1980s to claim responsibility for attacks in Lebanon , parts of the Middle East , and Europe . There is also the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Yemeni Islamic Jihad . In the Western World , the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the organization usually meant by the term "Islamic Jihad", due to the widespread media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . Although other groups may claim Islamic Jihad as their name, the particular name ''Islamic Jihad Organization'' (IJO) is the one used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Or Pasdaran , as a cover name for state sanctioned terrorist operations. The order for The April 1983 U.S. Embassy Bombing most likely originated high up in the Iranian authority, and the ''IJO'' made the claim that they carried out the embassy bombing. REFERENCES
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