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Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps
Author(s): Steven O'Hern (Author)
- Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
- Publication Date: 31 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1597977012
- ISBN-13: 9781597977012
Book Description
For thirty years, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has conducted covert and overt military operations, built an economic empire, and has trained, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goal―the preservation and expansion of the Islamic revolution. Inside Iran, the IRGC controls or influences Iran’s politics, economy, foreign policy, and directs its nuclear program. Outside of Iran, the operations of the IRGC and its proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shiite militias in Iraq, have left a trail of death―from the 1983 truck bombing of U.S. peacekeepers in Beirut to numerous attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
No longer content to strike at U.S. troops in Iraq or at U.S. targets in other Persian Gulf countries, the IRGC is developing the capability to strike the continental United States and deliver a blow to the U.S. economy far worse than today’s financial crisis. The author’s research suggests that the IRGC may be planning to explode a nuclear weapon high above a midwestern city that would emit an electromagnetic pulse strong enough to render useless anything with a computer chip, including the hundreds of transformers that control the country’s electrical grid.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Steven O’Hern’s definitive history of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard lays out in chilling detail the blatant acts of terrorism perpetrated with impunity by this group worldwide over three decades. This book is especially timely considering Iran is on the cusp of attaining nuclear weapons and because the ideology-driven IRGC will be the organization to use them. It is an impressive work that highlights the need for America to wake up before it’s too late.”–Col. Timothy J. Geraghty, USMC (Ret.), author of
Peacekeepers at War: Beirut 1983–The Marine Commander Tells His Story“The study of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard could hardly be a more urgent priority for policymakers, students of foreign affairs, and those with an interest in the Middle East. This essential account explores the key role played by the Guard in Iranian society, the economy, and national politics as well as its military value.”–Mark Urban, military historian and author of
Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in IraqAbout the Author
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