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Iran’s military after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Subscribe for new videos every Thursday!     http://bit.ly/2cENaBW Production excerpts from Archival's "The Third Path," an upcoming 12-part series covering the recent history of Iran. For more information on "The Third Path" - http://www.archival.international/thi... Like us on Facebook -   / archival.international   Follow us on Twitter -   / archivaltweets   Website - http://www.archival.international/ Staff Credits - Director/Producer: Shannon Niehus Creative Director: Michael Knapp Editor: Rosalee Chan Multimedia Artist: Miriam Heller Graphic Design: Matt Heller Visual Effects: Jim Millen Researcher: Golzar Sepehri Assistant Producer: Maureen Sandlin Production Credits - DP: William Knights Camera Operator: Tim Jolly Grip: Jamie Burr Video Transcript - One of the tasks which presents itself as most urgent is to keep Iran together as a single country. As a consequence of the dynamic of the revolutionary movement, autonomous movements have seized considerable amounts of power in the peripheral provinces of Iran, particularly among the Kurds and, again, among the Turkomans in the north. So Khomeini needs an army because he needs to bring these countries back under the control of the central government. You also have in 1980, episodes where it appears the elements within the army are conspiring to try to ferment a coup. So there is a real challenge to the Islamic Republic within the army. In order to counter any possible political unreliability from the army, the Islamic Republic establishes the Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran, who are a different kind of organization. Their task is to make sure that the army does its job properly in professional terms, and also that it doesn't develop ambitions of a political kind. Perhaps the principal motive for Iraq launching the invasion was because they felt revolutionary Iran was weak and would not be able to put up significant military resistance. In fact, it worked the opposite way so that all the ardor of the revolutionary movement was channeled into the war effort, and it became very much a patriotic duty and was taken up by the population. Whatever they thought about the new Islamic Republic, the patriotic duty to defend the country struck a very deep cord among the population, and the army was able to draw on that very substantially.