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Should the Gulf Negotiate Iran or De Facto Aggressor: \u2018The Revolutionary Guard\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s elite revolutionary guard, an armed force intended to protect Tehran\u2019s theocratic regime, has registered disruptive and intrusive activity in 14 regional states. The guards operations in Syria alone cost the cleric-led regime some $100 billion. Wrote Salman Al-Dossary, former editor in chief of Asharq \u2013 Al \u2013Awsat on this newspaper on March 12, 2017. The article continues as follows:<\/p>\n A paper written by two Brussels-based human rights groups presented, in detail, all unwarranted intrusions and funding of terror groups carried out by the guard in order to achieve the regime\u2019s expansionist ambitions.<\/p>\n All the more, the research shows Iran\u2019s elite guard stepping up its meddling in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon ever since Tehran went into its nuclear talks with the world\u2019s super powers.<\/p>\n Anyone, party or nation who had firsthand experienced Iran\u2019s bitter attitude and aggressive behavior hardly finds the abovementioned revelations a surprise.<\/p>\n And as positive indicatives point towards the United States President Donald Trump seriously considering to enlist Iran\u2019s revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization, it is very embarrassing for any party that still has faith in composed and rational talks being held between Gulf States and Iran.<\/p>\n Iran and Gulf states cannot be seen as counterparts to an argument, as one party orients itself towards delivering progress to its people and stabilizing the region whilst the other is a self-styled state that aims to destabilize the region, spreading terrorism everywhere. The latter cannot be simply rewarded a seat to negotiate what can possibly adhere to its hostility.<\/p>\n Struan Stevenson President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association, who\u2019s body published the study on the revolutionary guard concluding that \u201c[Iranian] meddling in the affairs of other regional countries is institutionalized and the IRGC (the revolutionary guard) top brass has been directly involved,\u201d the report said, directly implicating the Iranian military and state apparatus in destabilization operations around the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n The report also criticizes the guard for undertaking a \u201chidden occupation\u201d of four countries, namely Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.<\/p>\n The European study said: \u201cEvery month, hundreds of forces from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Lebanon \u2013 countries where the [Iranian] regime is involved in frontline combat \u2013 receive military training and are subsequently dispatched to wage terrorism and war.\u201d<\/p>\n With all that being said, it is clear that the struggle with Iran is that the problem lies not with its people or its limited-power government or unproductive parliament, but with its guard serving a bellicose expansionist agenda as stipulated in the national constitution.<\/p>\n The guard is placed just under the upper hand of the supreme leader which positions it at a place of unconstrained jurisdiction and power and just above Iran\u2019s national army.<\/p>\n More so, the study revealed that the guard operates some 90 dummy companies that control 90 Iranian ports \u2013 making up for 45 percent of national ports \u2013 and which run a whopping $12 billion in annual revenue.<\/p>\n The elite guard uses the very same ports to import arms to its militias in neighboring countries that upon delivery aid in further destabilizing security of their respective states.<\/p>\n It cannot be trusted that Iran is serious with its negotiations whilst it fosters a home militia (the revolutionary guard) that has literally been placed itself above the law.<\/p>\n Iran is far and foremost the greatest winner in the recent calls for negotiations with Gulf States.<\/p>\n After having exploited the talks, Iran will employ a stronger expansionist agenda, buying itself more time to extend profits it reaps from regional states.<\/p>\n More so, Iran will not stop at the talks failing but will relish in having branded itself a peaceful negotiable state as opposed to Gulf states being the ones having \u2018refused\u2019 to instate peace and stability.<\/p>\n Should we blame Iran? Of course not, its transgressions had gone beyond that\u2013 blocs that allowed for such a clich\u00e9 and fruitless rhetoric to go into a vicious cycle are those who should be held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Should the Gulf Negotiate Iran or De Facto Aggressor: ‘The Revolutionary Guard’? Iran’s elite revolutionary guard, an armed force intended to protect Tehran’s theocratic regime, has registered disruptive and intrusive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-22350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n