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Memo 5 (Analysis of why they are not a terrorist group ((Terrorists are…
Memo 5
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Background
History of group
Examples of when ISIS or other terrorist organizations are at the border, when there is an external threat, support for the guards increase. This designation that happened earlier this week will serve to unify the Iranians around the revolutionary guard. Ultimately the guard helps secure the country.
The test of this new group was to let their ideology survive, plunged into 8 year war and is weakened by the late 80s. 30 years later, how does this organization become so important? Due to internation pressure and sanctions, the guard has been empowered by the government.
Iran Revolutionary Guard created in 1979 right after the Iranian Revolution because the new government didn’t trust irans standard army that the Iranians called the Artesh. They didn’t think that the army was loyal because it had been loyal to the previous ruler, the shah of iran. And so as a result they carried out a number of purges and ultimately they decided to set up the revolutionary guard as a new entity that had an ideological leaning that believed in the revolution. And that would be tasked with spreading the revolution nboth domestically and outside of irans borders
Unique and no other organization to really compare it to. It has a military, foreign policy, economic branch and is fairly beauracratic in its design. It’s members are integral to Iranian politics and their former president was a former member of the guards
Unique and no other organization to really compare it to. It has a military, foreign policy, economic branch and is fairly beauracratic in its design. It’s members are integral to Iranian politics and their former president was a former member of the guards
What exactly is IRG? Branch of the Iranian Islamic republic government effectively. Created in 1979 after revolution whn irans army, their views were not in line with those of the new government and their people couldn’t be trusted. And so the new government created the Revolutionary Guards as a kind of parallal military organization that would uphold the views of the Islamic republic and that would spread the revolution both inside and outside the country.
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