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He uses the Iran-Iraq War as evidence that martyrdom ideology galvanized Iran, frightened Iraqis, and could have defeated Iraq if America had not used chemical weapons against Iran.
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Iran Iraq WAR
Jiang describes the Basij as poor religious village volunteers, often teenagers, mobilized with rifles and keys to heaven to run across minefields and exhaust the Iraqi army through sacrifice.
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Jiang argues that the Iran-Iraq War made the IRGC the dominant military group in Iran because it protected the revolution against foreign invasion.
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Jiang says the post-revolutionary regime had weakened the regular army by arresting, exiling, or executing officers it considered loyal to the Shah, leaving Iran vulnerable when Saddam Hussein invaded in 1980.
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Jiang describes the Basij as poor religious village volunteers, often teenagers, mobilized with rifles and keys to heaven to run across minefields and exhaust the Iraqi army through sacrifice.
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The speaker argues that Iran's aggressive regional intervention emerged after the Iran-Iraq War, which he says was encouraged by Saudi Arabia and the United States and killed millions of Iranians.
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"...We have an example of this. It's the... Sorry. The Iran -Iraq war. war which is what happened in the 1980s okay an eight..."
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"greatest glory is to be a martyr the greatest glory is to die for your nation and for god so they all these young..."
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"were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population..."
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"...country in 1980. Okay? And this started something called the Iran -Iraq War. And it was not just the Americans who support this war...."
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"Okay? And you can imagine that these students, because they pieced together these documents, right? They're fanatics. And guess what, guys? These students have..."
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"And the reason why is that the Revolutionary Guard Corps had arrested or exiled or executed the officers of the military. Because they were..."
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"And they gave each of these guys a rifle and a key to put over their necks. Okay? And the idea is that this..."
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"example, it wants to cut back production in order to increase the price of oil, which will increase profits. But Iran often doesn't cooperate..."
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