The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards [Hardcover]

An examination of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) view their history and their roles in the Iran-Iraq War.Provides a close look at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to understand Iran's recent history and how the Revolutionary Guards view their own roles therein. By using the Iran-Iraq War, one of the most significant events in the Islamic Republic's history, as a focal point, Tracy Samuel analyzes the links between war and revolution.Provides a close look at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to understand Iran's recent history and how the Revolutionary Guards view their own roles therein. By using the Iran-Iraq War, one of the most significant events in the Islamic Republic's history, as a focal point, Tracy Samuel analyzes the links between war and revolution.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), founded after the Iranian revolution in 1979, is one of the most powerful and prominent but least understood organizations in Iran. In this book, Annie Tracy Samuel presents an innovative and compelling history of this organization and, by using the Iran-Iraq War as a focal point, analyzes the links between war and revolution. Tracy Samuel provides an internal view of the IRGC by examining how the Revolutionary Guards have recorded and assessed the history of the war in the massive volume of Persian language publications produced by the organization's top members and units. This not only enhances our comprehension of the IRGC's roles and power in contemporary Iran, but also demonstrates how the history of the Iran-Iraq War has immense bearing on the Islamic Republic's present and future. In doing so, the book reveals how analyzing Iran's history provides the critical tools for understanding its actions today.1. Introduction; 2. Guards: the establishment of the IRGC; 3. Historians: the IRGC's history of the Iran-Iraq war; 4. Striking while the Revolution's hot: the causes of the Iran-Iraq war; 5. Willing and unable: Iran confronlƒ!