Iran–UAE Relations and Disputes Over the Sovereignty of Abu Musa and Tunbs

Eslami, Mohammad; Sotoudehfar, Saba

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3564-9_14

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“…47 The war changed Iran's attitude towards the BMP: the Iranian authorities, who initially had to resort to using Chinese ballistic missiles in 1984 as a means of retaliating against Iraq's missile attacks, saw an urgent need to develop a stronger missile capacity. 48 Thus, although Iran's first attempt to build ballistic missiles and high-level artillery dates back to 1977, 49 it was during the Iran-Iraq War, 50 particularly between 1984 and 1988, that the BMP experienced a breakthrough. In this sense, the evolution of the BMP in Iran cannot be dissociated from the idea of legitimate retaliation and is thus inherently linked to qisas.…”

Section: Iran-iraq War (1980-88)mentioning

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Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment

Eslami¹,

Vysotskaya²,

Vieira³

2022

International Affairs

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Iran's January 2020 missile attacks on US military bases in Iraq following the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani correspond to a stark change of Iran's approach. Iran has namely abstained from using its ballistic missile program (BMP), which was only used twice after the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War: in 2017 and 2018, in both instances in retaliation against ISIS attacks. The article explores the change in Iran's employment of its BMP from a strategic culture perspective while paying special attention to the principles of Shi'a Islam, which form a particular discursive habitat in which Iran's strategic actions are framed and rationalized. Iran's approach to the BMP is thus inseparable from qisas (retaliation), while obeying the overarching principle of maslahat; but also characterized by the varying importance of the the principles zarare aghall, ezterar and nafye sabil. We conclude that a perspective focusing on religious principles can contribute to our understanding of strategic cultural change, in what concerns its possible orientation, range and limits.

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