{"id":4105,"date":"2007-09-18T13:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/4105-irans-expanding-war-strategy"},"modified":"2023-01-13T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:18:16","slug":"irans-expanding-war-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/irans-expanding-war-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Expanding War Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AlirezaJafarzadeh_320\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-31027\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/07\/AlirezaJafarzadeh_320.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/AlirezaJafarzadeh_320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/AlirezaJafarzadeh_320-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/AlirezaJafarzadeh_320-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/AlirezaJafarzadeh_320-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>By Alireza Jafarzadeh<br \/><\/em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,297199,00.html?sPage=fnc.foxfan\/blogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after his IRGC-engineered win, Ahmadinejad, a former  senior IRGC commander, vowed to &#8220;spread the Islamic Revolution throughout the  world.&#8221; With the full blessing of Khamenei, he staffed the top tiers of his  cabinet and diplomatic corps with veteran IRGC commanders. Today, nearly  one-third of the parliament is comprised of IRGC members.<\/p>\n<p>The political rise of the IRGC reflects Ayatollah Khamenei&#8217;s  strategic calculation that backing down in the nuclear standoff and in Iraq  would jeopardize the survival of the theocratic regime. He said as much last  year: &#8220;Any retreat [in the nuclear field] will open the way for a series of  endless pressure and never-ending back downs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was not a slip of the tongue. In October 2005, the  chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, declared that &#8220;This is a war. If we take  a step back today, tomorrow they will bring up the issue of human rights, and  the day after they will bring up the issue of Hezbollah, and then democracy, and  other matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years on, the IRGC has taken full control of the nuclear  program and has evolved into the most powerful financial conglomerate in Iran.  Moreover, through a mesh of front companies and affiliated civilian firms, the  Guards Corps has been importing nuclear-related technology and material in  direct violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1737 and 1747, which  explicitly forbid such transactions.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents obtained by this author from his  sources associated with the main opposition inside Iran, i.e. the Mujahedin-e  Khalq (MEK), the Iranian Ministry of Defense (MOD) has authorized the import of  goods to the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO). The AIO is a military  installation run by the IRGC that manufactures missiles, and some of its  subordinates, as well as its executive director, are among the entities  sanctioned in the UN resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the documents, dated March 7, 2007, is a directive  from the AIO&#8217;s Executive Director, IRGC Brigadier General Ahmad Vahid Dastjerdi,  to the Iranian Customs Office. In it, he lists 28 officials of the MOD who are  authorized to release imported goods to entities listed. Moreover, on April 21,  2007, a shipment of 108 containers for MOD arrived from China at Iran&#8217;s Chabahar  Port. The shipment was labeled as &#8220;highly classified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq, where Tehran aims to establish a client state, the  IRGC&#8217;s elite Qods Force is leading the ayatollahs&#8217; destabilization campaign.  This author has obtained the detailed list of nearly 32,000 Iraqis, inside and  outside of Nouri Al-Maliki&#8217;s government, who are on the payroll of the IRGC.<\/p>\n<p>On the financial front, several huge no-bid energy contracts  have been given to IRGC-owned companies totaling billions of dollars. These  include a $3 billion contract for the IRGC&#8217;s Khatam al-Anbia headquarters to  expand the southern Pars gas field. The Sadra Company, a major firm owned by the  Guards, has obtained contracts to build several oil shipyards in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>And long before getting into the business of exporting  terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction, the IRGC was busy killing  and suppressing Iranians. The primary task of the IRGC and its Bassij forces is  to shield the theocracy against growing opposition and to quash uprisings of a  restive population.<\/p>\n<p>The terror designation of the IRGC would go a long way in  impeding the clerical regime&#8217;s rogue behavior at home and abroad. More  importantly, it will send a long overdue signal to the Iranian people that the  United States stands with them and their resistance against the IRGC-protected  ruling tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>In its September 16 issue, <em>The New York  Times<\/em> reported that while many in the administration are pushing to  blacklist the entire IRGC, &#8220;officials at the State and Treasury Departments have  been pushing a narrower approach that would list only the Revolutionary Guard&#8217;s  elite Quds [Qods] Force, or perhaps, only companies and organizations with  financial ties to that group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If true, this &#8220;narrower&#8221; designation would weaken the  political message Washington intends to send to Tehran&#8217;s rulers who in fact  thrive on display of weakness. It would also signal to Iranians that, despite  the lip-service paid to its relentless pursuit of democracy, Washington refuses  to blacklist the entire IRGC which is most responsible for the ayatollahs&#8217;  bloody grip on power.<\/p>\n<p>If the terrorist designation would only be limited to the  Qods Force, then the IRGC&#8217;s nuclear weapons operations, its financial  institutions, much of its terror operations in Lebanon and elsewhere, as well as  its domestic repression would remain intact and unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Such policy recommendations, dominated by an inordinate  appetite for keeping the illusionary doors of negotiation open with the mullahs,  inevitably encourages more belligerence from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, while the State Department in successive U.S.  administrations and in what can only be described as a Chamberlainesque  appeasement of ruling tyrants in Iran, has turned a blind eye to the terrorism  of the IRGC, it has named the democratic opposition, including the MEK as  terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, President George W. Bush stated that  &#8220;democratic dissidents of today are the democratic leaders of tomorrow.&#8221;  Branding the IRGC as terrorist and revoking the terror designation of Iran&#8217;s  democratic dissidents is a first and necessary step to empowering the democratic  leaders of tomorrow&#8217;s Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alireza Jafarzadeh is a FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst and the  author of &quot;The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis&quot;  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jafarzadeh has revealed Iran&#8217;s terrorist network in Iraq and its terror  training camps since 2003. He first disclosed the existence of the Natanz  uranium enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water facility in August  2002.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Prior to becoming a contributor for FOX, and until August 2003,  Jafarzadeh acted for a dozen years as the chief congressional liaison and media  spokesman for the U.S. representative office of Iran&#8217;s parliament in exile, the  National Council of Resistance of Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alireza JafarzadehSource: Fox News Shortly after his IRGC-engineered win, Ahmadinejad, a former senior IRGC commander, vowed to &ldquo;spread the Islamic Revolution throughout the world.&rdquo; With the full blessing of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-a-world","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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