Ali Alfoneh

Iran Unveiled

How the Revolutionary Guards Is Transforming Iran from Theocracy into Military Dictatorship

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Produktbeschreibung

In Iran Unveiled, Middle East expert Ali Alfoneh describes the coming revolt of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the implications this would have on regional and international politics. As Iran experiences the most important change in its history since the revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the regime in Tehran, traditionally ruled by the Shia clergy, is transforming into a military dictatorship dominated by the officers of the IRGC. This transformation is changing not only the economy and society in Iran, but also the Islamic Republic's relations with the United States and its allies. This book provides the legal, historical, ideological and military frameworks for what Alfoneh believes to be an escalating and inevitable revolution in Iran. Iran Unveiled informs and educates anyone with an interest in Iran-US relations and the future of Middle eastern politics at a time at a time of growing tension in one of the world's most unstable but indispensable political zones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AEI Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780844772530
• ISBN-10: 0844772534
• Artikelnr.: 37779471

Autorenporträt

By Ali Alfoneh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Emergence of the Guards 2.1. Not One,
But Several Guards 2.2. Unification of the Guards, Institutionalization of
Factionalism Notes 3. The Revolutionary G uards' Role in Domestic Politics
3.1. Legal Framework 3.2. A History of Politicization 3.3. Conclusion Notes
4. The IRGC as an Internal Security Organization in Contemporary Iran 4.1.
Formal Merger of the IRGC with the Basij 4.2. The Mosaic Doctrine 4.3.
Conclusion Notes 5. Collapse of the Commissariat 5.1. Legal Framework 5.2.
Early History and Establishment 5.3. Khomeini's Commissars 5.4. Khamenei's
Commissars 5.5. Conclusion Notes 6. Dysfunctional Ideological/Political
Indoctrination in the IRGC 6.1. The Legal Framework and Institutions 6.2.
Early Attempts at Ideological/Political Indoctrination in the IRGC 6.3.
Indoctrinating to Intervene 6.4. Contradictions and Implications 6.5.
Conclusion Notes 7. The Economic Empire of the IRGC 7.1. Twisting of the
Legal Framework 7.2. From Military Industries to the Production of Consumer
Goods 7.3. From Social Housing to Real Estate Speculation in Dubai 7.4. The
IRGC as a Contractor: Enemy of the Private Sector 7.5. Chain Stores of the
Guards: Competition with the Traditional Bazaar 7.6. The IRGC and
Telecommunications: Elimination of Domestic and Foreign Competition 7.7.
The IRGC and the Oil and Gas Sector 7.8. The IRGC on the Tehran Stock
Exchange 7.9. The IRGC and Smuggling 7.10. Conclusion Notes 8. The
Revolutionary Guards and the Export of the Revolution 8.1. The Ideological
Foundations of the Export of the Revolution 8.2. Practical Foundations of
the Export of the Revolution: Iranian Revolutionaries as Members of a World
Revolutionary Movement 8.3. Export of the Revolution as a National Security
Doctrine and an Instrument of Domestic Power Struggle vi IRAN'S
REVOLUNTIONARY GUARDS 8.4. Exporting the Revolution 8.5. Conclusion Notes
9. Conclusion Index About the Author