{"id":7762,"date":"2020-03-29T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:07:39","slug":"temperature-rising-irans-revolutionary-guards-and-wars-in-the-middle-east-translated-by-rasanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/news\/temperature-rising-irans-revolutionary-guards-and-wars-in-the-middle-east-translated-by-rasanah\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature Rising Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East  Translated by Rasanah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The International Institute for\nIranian Studies (Rasanah) has translated&nbsp;\ninto Arabic <em>Temperature Rising: Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards and Wars\nin the Middle East<\/em> written by Nader Uskowi, an Iranian-American scholar, a\nsubject matter expert on the Islamic Republic of Iran and its military.\nStemming from his broad experience, Uskowi wrote a well-detailed book based on\nmeasures to assess the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its weight in\nthe Iranian political system, its expansionary influence and the rising\ntensions it has created in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first chapter entitled, \u201cIran at\nWar: The Push for Primacy in the Middle East,\u201d&nbsp;\nexplains how Iran seeks to spread its dominance in&nbsp; the Middle East, especially in Syria, Iraq\nand Yemen. It also reviews Iran\u2019s covert operations in&nbsp; Afghanistan, Israel\u2019s northern front, and the\nactivities of its proxy-militias on the Yemeni border with Saudi Arabia. The\nsecond chapter entitled, \u201cThe Shia Liberation Army,\u201d provides readers with\ninsights into the formation and arming of Iranian militias and their\ntransformation into one multinational expeditionary army deployed to battle out\nof their home countries for Iran. The multinational militias were persuaded by\nmoney and trained by the Quds Force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third chapter entitled, \u201cThe\nYears of Revolution and War,\u201d reviews the Shia role in the Iran-Iraq War and\nthe creation of Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as how the Quds Force exploited \u201cthe\nShia militia organizations to conduct a number of terrorist attacks on foreign\nsoil outside the war zones.\u201d The fourth chapter entitled \u201cGateways to\nAfghanistan and Iraq\u201d provides readers with a detailed view of how senior Quds\nForce and IRGC officers played a key role in planning and coordinating anti-Taliban\noperations in conjunction with the Northern Alliance commanders, following the\nSeptember 11 attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth chapter, \u201cUprisings, Civil\nWars, and Insurgencies,\u201d reviews the Syrian civil war; the battle for Iraq;\nsectarian ethnic fault lines; post-Daesh Iraq;&nbsp;\nthe plans of the Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani to establish a\nShia-led government taking the lead in Yemen, a country bordering Saudi Arabia.\nThe sixth chapter entitled, \u201cLand Corridor to Syria,\u201d provides readers with\ndetailed analysis and a view of the Battle of Aleppo and the Quds Force dream\nto establish \u201ca Shia nation unified by its militant anti-Western and\nanti-Israeli ideology.\u201d The seventh chapter entitled, \u201cThe Iraqi Campaign\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;reviews\nthe roles of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and other Shia militias in\nbattle field. &nbsp;The eighth chapter, \u201cSanaa\nCalling,\u201d analyses the insurgency of the Houthis against the government of Ali\nAbdullah Saleh, and &nbsp;the &nbsp;complex relationship between the Houthis and\nSaleh which led the Houthis to capture Sanaa. Moreover, it reviews Houthi\nattacks on the Mandeb Strait and their ballistic missile attacks against Saudi\nArabia. The ninth chapter entitled, \u201cUnfinished Business in Afghanistan,\u201d&nbsp; reviews the role of the Quds Force and the Taliban\nin the post-September 11 period and the Quds Force recruitment of Afghani\nShias. The tenth chapter entitled, \u201cResourcing the Quds Force Regional Campaigns,\u201d\ndetails the broad military logistic networks of the IRGC, including the missile\nforce, the cyber capabilities, and financial support network run by foundations\nand businesses under the IRGC.&nbsp; The\neleventh chapter entitled, \u201cLong Road, Uncertain Future,\u201d reviews the\noperational challenges the Quds Force faces and &nbsp;Iran\u2019s changing role in the region, here\nUskowi concludes that, \u201cIran believes that any gains by the US, &nbsp;Israel, or the Sunni Arab governments\nconstitute a loss for Iran, and vice versa.\u201d Finally, Uskowi succeeds in\nanalyzing and forecasting the future of the Quds Force, highlighting that the\nrevolutionary project is challenged by many threats. Apparently, Iran\u2019s\nmilitary strategy will not help her survive in a destabilizing region, leading\nher to a military confrontation with world and regional powers.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah) has translated&nbsp; into Arabic Temperature Rising: Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East written by Nader Uskowi, an Iranian-American scholar, a subject matter expert on the Islamic Republic of Iran and its military. Stemming from his broad experience, Uskowi wrote a well-detailed book based on measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[355,722,4614,4613],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-irgc","tag-middle-east","tag-nader-uskowi","tag-temperature-rising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","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=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7764,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}