A major escalation in an ongoing war.

An organization responsible for the deaths of over 600 Americans in Iraq.

Neither useless nor counterproductive.

Stating the obvious isn’t a provocation.

An anti-American worldview combined with a strategy based on terror and repression.

A windfall for the Revolutionary Guard’s economic empire.

What makes Iran so dangerous is messianism combined with the Revolutionary Guard. The men with guns call the shots. (Interview by Lee Smith.)