{"id":13054,"date":"2024-10-17T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2024-12-24T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:28:51","slug":"rasanah-issues-irans-security-and-intelligence-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/news\/rasanah-issues-irans-security-and-intelligence-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasanah Issues Iran\u2019s Security and Intelligence Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah) has issued the English edition of the book entitled Iran\u2019s Security and Intelligence Circles <\/em>authored originally in Arabic by Iranian affairs researcher Dr. Saad Mohammed bin Nami. The 137-page book examines both the historical and modern security systems in Iran. The first chapter is entitled \u201cIranian Security Circles\u201d and analyzes the country\u2019s revolutionary institutions and security agencies with their different classifications. Iran\u2019s revolutionary institutions include the Council of the Islamic Revolution \u2014 the first revolutionary institution established prior to Khomeini\u2019s return from exile in France to Iran as the Shiite cleric had chosen its members on December 24, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter discusses Iran\u2019s various security agencies which perform overlapping roles and have ambiguous structures. The supreme leader has influence over all these entities, including the supervisory and regulatory councils, the security forces of the Islamic Revolution Committees, the IRGC, the Basij and the Law Enforcement Force. These entities carry out high-precision intelligence missions, in addition to the Iranian \u201cCyber army\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second chapter is entitled \u201cIranian Intelligence Circles\u201d and highlights the country\u2019s intelligence agencies prior to the 1979 revolution, including the Organization of National Security and Intelligence (SAVAK). The agency was established by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1957 to protect the ruling system against internal opposition and prevent the leftists from infiltrating the armed forces or other government organizations. SAVAK, however, failed to address the internal threats after the rise of the Iranian revolution in 1979. This was because the ruling system had significant flaws that undermined its capability to deal with the threats emanating from Iran\u2019s grassroots and the country\u2019s ethnic and ideological components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter also touches on the intelligence agencies post-1979 revolution, including the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) \u2014 the first intelligence agency. VEVAK, initially known as SAVAMA, was established in August 1983 and undertakes four main tasks \u2014 providing analysis and strategies to protect state institutions (domestic security), keeping track of Iranian opposition actors abroad (regional security), and performing counterintelligence and foreign intelligence operations in coordination with the country\u2019s analytical departments and regional divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the chapter reviews Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence, foreign policy, media outlets, the internet, the Intelligence Organization of the IRGC and the electronic spying program (IBEX). The chapter also sheds light on different topics related to Iran\u2019s intelligence and security circles, including the disagreement between the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence, the counter-espionage agency Oghab 2 and the Iranian Cyber Army and its attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the third chapter, the author discusses \u201cIranian Intelligence Activities,\u201d reviewing in detail the assassinations carried out inside Iran and the country\u2019s intelligence activities abroad as well as arms smuggling and attempts to undermine the security of other countries at the regional and international levels. Dr. Bin Nami supports his research with several examples proving the involvement of the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC in these activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly-released publication contains an in-depth exploration of the Iranian Law Enforcement Force, thoroughly analyzing the structure and tasks of the entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is available at the Neel wa Furat Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah) has issued the English edition of the book entitled Iran\u2019s Security and Intelligence Circles authored originally in Arabic by Iranian affairs researcher Dr. Saad Mohammed bin Nami. The 137-page book examines both the historical and modern security systems in Iran. The first chapter is entitled \u201cIranian Security Circles\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13058,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions\/13058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}