Iran's Deadly Ambition (38 page)
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Authors: Ilan Berman
Mead, Walter Russell,
12
Mehr (YouTube alternative),
157
Menendez, Robert,
5
Meshaal, Khaled,
56
missiles: anti-aircraft,
37
,
85
; anti-ship,
19
; ballistic,
17–19
,
69
,
99
,
101
,
103
,
105
,
117
,
125
; components for,
113
; engineer of, suspicious death,
147
; ICBM,
100
; shipments of,
145
Mnangagwa, Emmerson,
140
Modell, Scott,
50
Mohammed VI (king of Morocco),
137
money laundering,
90
Mongolia,
80
Montenegro,
75
Morocco,
137
Morsi, Mohammed,
30–31
Mosul (Iraq),
46
Mottaki, Manouchehr,
141
Mousavi, Mir Hossein,
43
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
166
MTN (telecom company),
136–37
Mugabe, Robert,
139–40
Mughniyeh, Imad,
104
Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt),
29–31
,
32
,
55
.
See also
Hamas
Mussawi, Ibrahim,
74
Nagorno-Karabakh (disputed region),
88
Nasrallah, Hassan,
101
National, The
(UAE newspaper),
36
,
43–44
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI),
67
National Interest
(magazine),
162
National Iranian American Council,
161
National Islamic Front (NIF; Sudan),
132–33
National Security Council (USA),
161
Naveira, Diego,
125
NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran),
67
Netanyahu, Benjamin,
73
Newscaster (phishing scheme),
155
New York (N.Y.),
127–28
New Yorker
,
60
Nodong missiles (North Korea),
99
,
100
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on the (NPT),
68
Novak, Alexander,
82
Nowruz (Persian New Year),
91
Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act (USA),
5
nuclear weapons,
18–19
.
See also
Iranian nuclear program
al-Nusra, Jabhat,
46
Obama, Barack H./Obama administration: Asia/Pacific foreign policy tilt of,
93–94
,
98
; Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act signed by,
129
; Cuban embargo lifted by,
168–69
; “engagement” policy with Iran,
1–2
,
11–12
,
63
,
96
,
161–62
,
166–67
; Iranian Internet surveillance as viewed by,
155–56
; Islamic State and,
47–48
; overoptimism about al-Qaeda,
45
; Rouhani
meeting and,
164–65
; secret letter to Khamenei,
47–48
; State of the Union address,
4–5
Obligio, Julián,
125
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),
113–14
oil reserves,
95
Operation Pillar of Defense (Israel),
55
,
132
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
86
Osman, Ahmed Belal,
131
al-Oufi, Osama,
35
P5+1,
1
,
64
,
86
,
138
,
154
,
163
.
See also
Joint Plan of Action
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza,
18
,
48
,
138–39
Pahpad AB-3 (UAV),
40
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),
57
,
73
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ),
56
Palestinian Territories: elections,
54–55
,
57
; Gaza War,
54
,
55
; Iranian influence in,
56–59
,
73
,
145
; Second Intifada,
57
Panetta, Leon,
93
pan-Islamism,
24
Paris, Hezbollah terrorist attacks in,
73
patronage networks,
16
People’s Liberation Army Navy (China),
97–98
Pérez Rodríguez, Carlos Andrés,
110–11
Persian Gulf, Iranian naval power in,
19–20
Persian New Year,
91
Peru,
116
Petro Sina Arya (IRGC shell company),
105
Peugeot,
66
Peyrouse, Sebastien,
92
Pham, J. Peter,
143
phishing,
155
pipeline projects,
106–7
Plesetsk (Russia),
18
populism, third-world,
24
Poti Free Industrial Zone (Georgia),
87–88
Press TV,
31
proselytization activities (
dawah
),
116
,
122
proxies,
22
,
32
,
49
,
50
,
53
,
60
,
87
,
101
,
129
,
145
.
See also
Hamas
;
Hezbollah
Putin, Vladimir,
85
Pyongyang (North Korea),
98
,
100
al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI),
45–46
.
See also
Islamic State
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
35
,
47
al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM),
47
Qatrah, Samiullah,
52
Qom (Iran),
61
Quds Force (IRGC–QF): African presence of,
133
; Chinese support of,
97
; Islamic revolution and,
20
; Latin American presence of,
113
,
116–17
,
128
; Muslim Brotherhood militants trained by,
32
; size of,
20
,
59
; Soleimani as commander of,
42
,
47
,
59–60
; terrorist acts plotted by,
128
; Yemeni insurgents supplied by,
36–37
Quito (Ecuador),
120
radiological weapons,
18
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi,
132
Rahbord
(journal),
69
Rahim-Safavi, Yahya,
41–42
Raman, B.,
104
RDX (explosive),
143
Reagan, Ronald,
49
Renault,
66
resistance economy,
5–6
Reuters,
65
Revolutionary Guards.
See
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Rezaian, Jason,
43–44
Rhodes, Ben,
162
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),
120
rogue states, Iranian support of,
6
Rose Revolution (Georgia),
87
Roshan, Mostafa Ahmadi,
104
Rossett, Claudia,
101
Roubini Global Economics,
3
Rouhani, Hassan: Africa-Iran relations and,
146
; Azerbaijan-Iran relations and,
89
; Egypt-Iran relations and,
31
; as hard-liner,
8–9
; human rights abuses under,
42–43
; as Iranian nuclear negotiator,
69
; as Iranian president,
7
,
79
; Latin America–Iran relations and,
127
; as moderate,
7–8
,
42
,
158
,
164
; Obama meeting put off by,
164–65
; political prisoners under,
44
; SCO appearance of,
79
,
80
; spiritual legitimacy of,
165
;
Washington Post
editorial of,
164
Rousseff, Dilma,
121
Royal United Services Institute,
150
Rubin, Michael,
135–36
Russia: anti-Western stance of,
85
,
86
; arms sales of,
145
; Asia/Pacific foreign policy tilt of,
94
; Crimean crisis,
75
,
76
,
85–86
; defense industry in,
83
; energy trade of,
75–76
; Eurasian Union economic project,
85
; Iranian satellites launched from,
18
; as P5+1 member,
1
,
86
,
163
; relations with Armenia,
89
; relations with Egypt,
31
; relations with Iran,
76–77
,
82–86
; relations with Tajikistan,
91
; relations with the West,
86
,
94
; as revisionist power,
12
; as SCO member,
80
; as Shanghai Five member,
79
; Ukrainian
territory annexed by,
75
; U.N. appearance of,
165
; and U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan,
81
; Western economic sanctions against,
86
Russian-Georgian War,
89
Rwanda,
135
S-100 anti-aircraft missiles,
85
S-300 anti-aircraft missiles,
85
Saakashvili, Mikheil,
87
Sadat, Anwar,
29
Sadjadpour, Karim,
165
Salam, Mohammed Abdul,
36
Salehi, Ali Akbar,
124
Salehi, Yeganeh,
43–44
