Understanding Australia’s vulnerability to Iran’s global terror

Tehran’s brazen acts of terror against Jewish targets in Australia, and the Australia government’s response, has turned the spotlight on the covert terror war that the Islamic republic of Iran has been waging for years around the globe.

The revolutionary theocratic regime in Iran, known to be the world’s number one terror supporter, sees the use of violence, both domestically and abroad, as a main tool to achieve its goals.

Iran uses terror, first, to maintain the regime’s stability by silencing any and all internal opposition. Its second priority is to expand Iran’s influence across the Middle East through the vision of “exporting the revolution”.

Under this logic, the two main enemies that stand in the regime’s way are the opposition forces – both within Iran and in Persian diaspora communities and  Israel, Tehran’s main regional rival. Destroying Israel is a cornerstone of Iran’s vision for the Middle East.

The main apparatus tasked by the regime to promote the violent actions against those targets, is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC’s mission is to protect the regime; its members are the regime’s top loyalists, many of them in government or associated positions.

The IRGC has carried out numerous terror attacks around the globe against regime dissidents and Israeli/Jewish targets. The most infamous of those attacks was the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.