Understanding the Motivation of Iran-Backed Militias

Between October and January 2024, Iranian - backed militias targeted US forces more than 60 times. For decades, Tehran benefited from political, military and financial investments in Iraq. Despite decades of western investment and training, Iranian - backed Iraqi militias have succeeded in state capture. This new regime change shows that regimes can be usurped through careful exploitation of legal and political institutions that the United States helped develop after 2003. Iranian - backed militias are made up of a combination of independently formed grassroots militias and IRGC-manufactured groups. Their objectives and priorities range widely, and their loyalty towards the regime can be complex, depending on their roots, leadership and commitment to velayat-e faqih. There are approximately 40 militant groups backed by Iran in the region, Baraa Shiban, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a British defense and security think-tank,. Author: Brian Carter The lack of a meaningful response from the so-called “Axis of Resistance” to the Israel- Iran war reveals how exhausted it is after months of fighting the United States and Israel. Iranian proxy and partner militias appear either unable or unwilling to support Iran in any serious way. Hezbollah and Hamas are probably unable. The Houthis and Iraqi militias appear largely. Profiles of 15 Iranian - backed Militias in the Middle East By Joe Truzman & Bill Roggio | October 31, 2023 |. Militant groups backed by Iran , which supports Hamas and for years has engaged in a shadow war with Israel, have joined in. These groups — part of Iran ’s so-called axis of resistance — have. Iran is trying to “Lebanonize” Iraq: to allow a pro-Western government to rule in theory while real power is wielded by Iran-backed militias . In Lebanon, that force is Hezbollah. In Iraq, it. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has built a network of proxies across the Middle East. As of 2022, Tehran had allies among more than a dozen major militias , some with their own political parties, that challenged local and neighboring governments.