Description
The article deals with the primary current domestic and international security challenges faced by Iran
and the way the regime deals with them on the (para-) military level. Additionally to possible kinetic attacks
in connection with Iran’s nuclear program, Teheran’s threat perception also comprises cyber-attacks
both by foreign powers and the domestic opposition as well as possible spreads of the Arab
Spring movements that might extend the Arabellion into an Irabellion. Iran reacts to this multifaceted
threat situation with its Mosaic Doctrine, a strategy of both offensive and defensive asymmetric warfare
in the kinetic as well as the cyber realm, and the Preemptive Jihad approach. In all these measures,
the Pasdaran and Basij forces play a predominant role. The article analyzes these specific forces, their
ideology, their new mission and the means and strategies to achieve the set goals.
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