{"id":3185,"date":"2017-07-04T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2017-07-04T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:54:23","slug":"demographic-and-identity-changes-in-syria-and-iraq-from-journal-for-iranian-studies-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/centre-for-researches-and-studies\/demographic-and-identity-changes-in-syria-and-iraq-from-journal-for-iranian-studies-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic and Identity Changes in Syria and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Mohammad Saied Alsayyad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iranian regime has not<br \/>\nbeen shy about announcing its founding principle of \u201cexporting the<br \/>\nRevolution,\u201d and supporting Shiite \u201cliberation\u201d movements \u2013 through<br \/>\narmament, logistical support, and propaganda, as well as the creation of<br \/>\nloyal militias in the region. The Iranian regime has massively altered the<br \/>\nconcept of Iranian national security, seeking to exploit the chaotic situation<br \/>\nin the region in the wake of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the Arab<br \/>\nSpring in the region. Iran has leapt to take advantage of regional events,<br \/>\nconsidering this is a decisive opportunity to change the demographic<br \/>\ncomposition of the Arab region in order to intensify and embed its own<br \/>\nregional presence and influence in the medium and long term, more<br \/>\nparticularly since the unstable security and economic conditions in the<br \/>\nregion make it difficult for other powers to focus on confronting the regime.<br \/>\nThis state intervention in the form of what might be termed demographic<br \/>\nwars mean that the impact of the regime\u2019s actions in changing conditions<br \/>\non the ground across the region is more serious than its use of hard, military<br \/>\npower alone. The regime has already begun establishing new supportive<br \/>\nmilitias and loyalist groups, who are then utilized for political, economic<br \/>\nand sectarian purposes, imposing pressure that serves the geographical<br \/>\nand doctrinal objectives which the Islamic Republic claims are essential<br \/>\nfor its national security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Demographic-and-Identity-Changes-in-Syria-and-Iraq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Saied Alsayyad Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iranian regime has not been shy about announcing its founding principle of \u201cexporting the Revolution,\u201d and supporting Shiite \u201cliberation\u201d movements \u2013 through armament, logistical support, and propaganda, as well as the creation of loyal militias in the region. The Iranian regime has massively altered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,42,1296,1913,1914,12,1878,351,89,1790,386,361,722,73,38,1791,83,28,106],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-researches-and-studies","tag-52","tag-agcis","tag-arabian-gulf-center-for-iranian-studies","tag-demographic","tag-identity","tag-iran","tag-iranian-studies","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-journal","tag-khamenei","tag-media","tag-middle-east","tag-press","tag-rouhani","tag-studies","tag-syria","tag-tehran","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","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=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}