Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars

Ofira Seliktar is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Gratz College, USA.  She is widely published and recently co-authored Iran, Israel, and the United States:The Politics of Counterproliferation Nuclear Intelligence with Farhad Rezaei.Farhad Rezaei is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. He is also Iran’s foreign policy analyst and author of numerous books and articles on Iran’s foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear program, nuclear intelligence, and nuclear and radiological terrorism. He recently authored Iran’s Foreign Policy After the Nuclear Agreement: Politics of Normalizers and Traditionalists.

• 1. Exporting the Revolution and Building Hegemony.- 2. Hezbollah in Lebanon: Creating the Model Proxy.- 3. Deploying Proxies against the “Zionist Enemy” and Undermining the Oslo Peace Process.- 4. Al-Qaeda: Islamist Ecumenism Against the United States and the West.- 5. From the Bader Brigade to the Popular Mobilization Forces: Fighting the Americans while Turning Iraq into a New Lebanon.- 6. Rescuing the Assad Regime and Turning Syria into a Client State.- 7. Proxies in the Gulf and Beyond: Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Principalities, and Yemen.- 8. Conclusions: The Success of the Proxy Strategy and its Limits.