Why Washington should take Mohsen Rezaei’s miscalculations seriously

The danger for Washington is not merely what Mohsen Rezaei threatens, but the possibility that he mistakes the threats themselves for a strategy — and deterrence for a license to escalate. To examine that danger, one must trace the relationship between Rezaei’s ideological formation, his rhetoric of confrontation, and the risk of strategic miscalculation.”

Rezaei must be understood within the context of the same guerrilla, violence-driven ideology of the armed Islamist terrorist group Mansouroun half a century ago — a Khomeinist terrorist organization of which he himself was a prominent member.