The Pasdaran: Inside Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The Pasdaran: Inside Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami) is more commonly known as Iranâ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), or the Pasadran. Sworn by an oath of loyalty to Iranâ€™s Supreme Leader, the IRGC is the regimeâ€™s Praetorian Guard, the custodian of its nuclear program, and now a juggernaut in Iranâ€™s economy. Since 1979, the Guards have played a key role in protecting the Revolution internally against domestic opposition while actively seeking to export it abroad. The IRGC has been at the forefront of repression every time ordinary Iranians have protested their lack of freedoms, including after the fraudulent presidential elections of June 2009. Iranâ€™s sponsorship of terrorism abroad is also executed through the IRGCâ€™s overseas operationsâ€™ branch, the Qods Forces. In The Pasdaran: Inside Iranâ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Emanuele Ottolenghi offers a detailed overview of how the IRGC came into being, how the Guards rose to a position of prominence in Iranâ€™s current power structure, how they have penetrated Iranâ€™s economy, how they are working to help Iran attain nuclear weapons, and why they will likely play a key role in Iran for decades to come.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-10-17
Format Kindle eBook

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