Iran's influence in the Middle East

By Philip Loft
Commons Library Research Briefing
August 25, 2022

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9504/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O6cz5JfDT6UUwA6NCApr85Y-azMN2CM5/view?usp=sharing

Countering Iran's Regional Strategy

A Long-Term, Comprehensive Approach

By Eyal Zamir
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
May 8, 2022

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/countering-irans-regional-strategy-long-term-comprehensive-approach

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OEeUlISkOs6E1agArXS_7oxfeRh1e18_/view?usp=sharing

Iran Entangled: Iran and Hezbollah's Support to Proxies Operating in Syria

By Nakissa Jahanbani and Suzanne Weedon Levy
Combating Terrorism Center 

West Point United States Military Academy
April 2022

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/iran-entangled-iran-and-hezbollahs-support-to-proxies-operating-in-syria/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SIq5G9epECdIsAv5mF6ZKb7Abfqof7nr/view?usp=sharing

Yemen's Houthis and the Expansion of Iran's Axis of Resistance

By Katherine Zimmerman
American Enterprise Institute
March 14, 2022

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/yemens-houthis-and-the-expansion-of-irans-axis-of-resistance/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12evV7wLaklvhfNxT7R0NxZBVSvUC62UD/view?usp=sharing

Iran

By James Phillips
The Heritage Foundation
October 20, 2021

https://www.heritage.org/military-strength/assessing-threats-us-vital-interests/iran

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QDFMI65MmHGssDy7l3wjhqriL-BY3Pjd/view?usp=sharing

The "Axis of Resistance"

Iran's Expansion in the Middle East Is Hitting a Wall

By Guido Steinberg
Die Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
August 2021

https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2021RP06/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z7yESWo8PALGeCOgGd_h0pHhXXIlkCjl/view?usp=sharing

Iran's Islamist Proxies in the Middle East

By Ashley Lane
Wilson Center
May 20, 2021

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/irans-islamist-proxies

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypE5NrYjSdIqYmhHbVJ0mVHt6PjHiYif/view?usp=sharing

The View From Tehran: Iran's Militia Doctrine

By Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
February 2021

https://institute.global/policy/view-tehran-irans-militia-doctrine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UImwkjpPxYPHNAFB-blPHI0sXRQEf2J2/view?usp=sharing

Iran's Foreign and Defense Policies

By Kenneth Katzman
Congressional Research Service
January 11, 2021

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44017

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D704rk9O6L7V5CjyT62hYZHQy1W_RWwM/view?usp=sharing

Iranian Proxy Groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen

A Principal-Agent Comparative Analysis

By Diane M. Zorri, Houman A. Sadri and David C. Ellis
Joint Special Operations University
December 2020

https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=857884

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPmnj0gnc8w98t6q6bECe6wBHZhqNl6C/view?usp=sharing

The Implementation of Iran's Axis of Influence

By Dr. Shimon Karmi
Alma Research and Education Center
June 29, 2020

https://israel-alma.org/2020/06/29/executive-summary/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nhqmUy1azzXTjyR50VJLTWgc7lpCY5_v/view?usp=sharing

Iran Military Power

Defense Intelligence Agency
August 2019

https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/Images/News/Military_Powers_Publications/Iran_Military_Power_LR.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1enQ5fuN4nQCIQmaOzeK-CfUFQK1lQOIO/view?usp=sharing

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Its Foreign Policy and Foreign Legion

By Mark D. Silinsky
Marine Corps University
September 16, 2019

https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Expeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal/Irans-Islamic-Revolutionary-Guard-Corps/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LOX5hFSMppsqeEx0cEy47_Ufo2gi2UQ2/view?usp=sharing

The Iran Threat Network (ITN)

Four Models of Iran's Nonstate Client Partnerships

By Ariane M. Tabatabai, Jeffrey Martini and Becca Wasser
RAND Corporation
September 2019

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4231.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8ZDArlw-nMF31QaJ5Zt3eZvmqfM1KNq/view?usp=sharing

War by Proxy

Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East

By Seth G. Jones
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS Briefs
March 2019

https://www.csis.org/war-by-proxy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlbaUzWTERtwf5tPHSBzNg7PLtiYCvBb/view?usp=sharing

Axis Rising: Iran's Evolving Regional Strategy and Non-State Partnerships in the Middle East

By Brian Katz
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS Briefs
October 11, 2018

https://www.csis.org/analysis/axis-rising-irans-evolving-regional-strategy-and-non-state-partnerships-middle-east

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10lYDehXQ40cc5tYHPYg6ioWuIVtUyvKK/view?usp=sharing

Salvaging the "Axis of Resistance," Preserving Strategic Depth

The Iranian Political Elite and Syria: Parallel Tracks with a Single Objective?

By Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
November 2014

http://kfcris.com/en/view/post/42

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CG_pKx4EtszBd6L-OPawRhMF5VnC9nF7/view?usp=sharing

On Shifting Sands: Iranian Strategy in a Changing Middle East

By Afshon Ostovar, Rebecca Edelston and Michael Connell
The Center for Naval Analyses
October 2013

https://www.cna.org/archive/CNA_Files/pdf/drm-2013-u-006026-final.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/104ovBmgcvBiFvF099N2sGQNnbuXIXh-b/view?usp=sharing

Is Iranian Shiite expansionism a threat to the Arab countries?

Claude Moniquet and Dimitri Dombret
European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center
July 8, 2009

http://www.esisc.org/publications/analyses/is-iranian-shiite-expansionism-a-threat-to-the-arab-countries

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCLATPe5jDoYpoj0_fuxOczq19Ruxdt4/view?usp=sharing

Iran's Proxy War Against America

By Thomas Joscelyn
The Claremont Institute
January 1, 2007

http://www.aina.org/reports/ipwaa.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jljVVVaSSR7UC-5l3EKcwao978HYByQG/view?usp=sharing

How Iran exports its ideology

By Jordan Steckler
United Against Nuclear Iran 

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/ideological-expansion/irans-ideological-expansion-middle-east

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14i5Xljh-aoHl_kAOQcduZFvnJLN7OTxu/view?usp=sharing