Potential vulnerabilities for Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) include long-term overextension due to a weak economy and continuing divisions among Iraq's Shia community regarding Iran and its doctrine of velayat-e faqih (the Islamic system of clerical rule).

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: CSIS
  War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS

Sources

• War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS www.csis.org CSIS via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• Iraq location
• Iran location
• IRGC-QF entity
• Velayat-e faqih concept