Iran's Revolutionary Guard by Steven O'Hern PDF

because the Iranian Revolution greater than thirty years in the past, the Islamic innovative safeguard Corps (IRGC), often referred to as the innovative shield, has carried out covert and overt army operations, equipped an financial empire, and proficient, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goalùthe upkeep and enlargement of the Islamic revolution. inside of Iran the IRGC impacts the countryÆs politics, economic system, and overseas coverage, and controls its nuclear application. outdoor Iran the operations of the IRGC and its proxies, together with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shiite militias in Iraq, have left a path of deathùfrom the 1983 truck bombings in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers and fifty eight French paratroopers to various assaults on U.S. (and allied) troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now, now not content material to strike in Iraq and Afghanistan or at objectives within the heart East and south Asia, the IRGC and Hezbollah function all through North and South the US, constructing the potential to strike the continental usa and bring a blow to AmericaÆs financial system a ways worse than todayÆs monetary crisis.
In IranÆs progressive Guard, Steven OÆHern finds new information regarding the IRGC and Hezbollah operations inside of the US according to interviews with former and energetic contributors of the FBI, CIA, neighborhood legislation enforcement, army intelligence, or even one former innovative protect officer. the writer info how the IRGC has grown into the sort of harmful foe and explains how its contributorsæ actions have placed the yank financial system and American lives in danger. His study means that the IRGC can be making plans to blow up, excessive above a Midwestern urban, a nuclear weapon that will emit an electromagnetic pulse robust adequate to render whatever with a working laptop or computer chip lifeless, together with the masses of transformers that keep watch over the countryÆs electric grid.
One factor is sure, in keeping with OÆHern: the progressive shield is a major risk to the healthiness of all U.S. citizens.