Iran’s Suicide Brigades: Terrorism Resurgent
I know this is old news, 2007, to be exact, but consider this: The process has had time to go from a recruited force, to one that has been trained, equipped, and dispatched to areas of operations.
Consider the Iranians don’t have a large military, nor we the capability to screen every person entering a mall, store, or office building….
More than five years after President George W. Bush’s declaration of a global war against terrorism, the Iranian regime continues to embrace suicide terrorism as an important component of its military doctrine. In order to promote suicide bombing and other terrorism, the regime’s theoreticians have utilized religion both to recruit suicide bombers and to justify their actions. But as some factions within the Islamic Republic support the development of these so-called martyrdom brigades, their structure and activities suggest their purpose is not only to serve as a strategic asset in either deterring or striking at the West, but also to derail domestic attempts to dilute the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary legacy.
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