| Description |
1 online resource (42 pages) : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits |
| Contents |
Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Advisory mission. -- Military resupply. -- Paramilitaries and proxies. -- Conclusion. -- Notes. -- Appendix: The assassination of Iranian Quds Force General Hassan Shateri in Syria |
| Summary |
Syria is vital to Iran's strategic interests in the Middle East and has long been Iran's closest state ally. Iran has conducted an extensive, expensive, and integrated effort to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power as long as possible while setting conditions to retain its ability to use Syrian territory and assets to pursue its regional interests should Assad fall. The Syrian conflict has already constrained Iran's influence in the Levant, and the fall of the Assad regime would further reduce Tehran's ability to project power. Iran's hedging strategy aims to ensure, however, that it can continue to pursue its vital interests if and when the regime collapses, using parts of Syria as a base as long as the Syrian opposition fails to establish full control over all of Syrian territory |
| Notes |
"A joint report by AEI's Critical Threats Project & Institute for the Study of War." |
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"May 2013." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ISW, viewed May 7, 2013) |
| Subject |
Military assistance, Iranian -- Syria
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Diplomatic relations.
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Military relations.
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Strategic aspects of individual places.
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| SUBJECT |
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
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Iran -- Military relations -- Syria
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Syria -- Strategic aspects
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Iran -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
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| Subject |
Iran.
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Middle East.
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Syria.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holliday, Joseph
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Wyer, Sam
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Institute for the Study of War (Washington, D.C.)
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
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