Iran’s strategic thinking: Origins and evolution

From American Enterprise Institute:

Key Points

• Iran desires to mitigate the regional dominance of the United States and its allies.
• Threats of subversion and domestic instability dominate Iran’s policymaking and military planning.
• National interest is the primary shaper of Iran’s strategic thinking, not ideology.
• Iran’s preference for low-intensity, proxy, and asymmetric warfare reflects a desire to avoid conventional escalation.

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