Abstract
This article aims to detail how the Iranian rationale deals with a more complex puzzle that that diagnosed by the western leading policies of the Donald Trump administration. It explains in detail why one of the first decisions of the USA after the withdrawal was to designate the “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps” as a terrorist organization, implying that the Iranian nuclear arms race was not only dependent but structurally linked both, with the domestic political structure of the country, as well as with the doctrinal and historical goals of the original Islamic Revolution. The article also accounts for the single most important influential regions and strategy for action of the Islamic Revolution, an agenda that uses conventional force, and soft power methods to increase their sphere of overarching action from the Middle East to the western hemisphere.
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Pablo Iglesias - Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de Aragón. Comunicación política en tiempos de crisis. 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2qWOsRyO0 “Mucha gente puede decir: “Pero vosotros si sois de izquierdas, porque aceptas hacer un programa para un gobierno como el de Irán, que es una teocracia, que no podéis estar de acuerdo con Irán o aceptareishacer algo para que una televisión financiada por el gobierno de Putin. Mira lageopolítica es así (…) A los iraníes les interesa que se difunda en AméricaLatina y en España un discurso de izquierdas porque afecta a sus adversarios…¿Lo aprovechamos o no lo aprovechamos? Para mi quien haga política tiene queasumir cabalgar contradicciones y nosotros estamos dispuestos a cabalgarlas… ¿Son contradicciones? por supuesto que sí… Las mujeres que trabajan en Hispan(TV) que presentan programas tienen que aparecer con un pañuelo que les rodeanla cabeza. ¿A mi me gusta eso? No, no me gusta ¿Eso es un motivo por el cual yo podríapermitirme decir no trabajar en esa cadena? (HispanTV) No. Creo que es másefectivo lo que estamos haciendo. (Irán) Nos ha permitido tener absolutocontrol de la redacción y el contenido de los programas y creo que bastaverlos…”.
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Castañeda, R.R. (2024). Iran Grand Strategy of Multi-hemispheric Interference. From the Middle East to the West. In: Salman, A., Tharwat, A. (eds) Digital Governance & Security. AUEIRC 2020. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49302-7_6
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