Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsWilayat al-Faqih
Iran’s doctrine demanding global submission to Iranian religious authority—represents the greatest ideological threat to American sovereignty and democratic values since Soviet communism, with a nuclear-armed regime explicitly committed to our destruction.
For over four decades, Iran has posed one of the most persistent and dangerous threats to American interests in the Middle East, yet many Americans fail to understand the ideological foundation driving this regime’s aggressive behavior. At the heart of Iran’s Islamic Republic lies Wilayat al-Faqih, a revolutionary doctrine that explicitly calls for global Islamic rule under Iranian leadership. This is Iran’s operational blueprint for regional and global domination that directly threatens American lives, our closest allies, and national security interests.
Wilayat al-Faqih, meaning “Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist,” represents the theological-political doctrine developed by Ayatollah Khomeini that forms the backbone of Iran’s government. This ideology holds that Islamic scholars, specifically Iranian clerics, must rule not just Iran but ultimately the entire world.
The doctrine encompasses four critical dimensions: love and devotion to Iran’s religious leadership, social leadership over Muslim communities globally, political authority to govern Islamic territories, and universal spiritual authority over all believers.
From the very beginning of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s leaders made their global ambitions clear. Ayatollah Khomeini declared that “We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.” Today, Iran has established what amounts to an occupation in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and parts of Yemen, controlling some of the most strategically important territories in the Arab world.
Unable to directly confront superior American military power, Iran has built the world’s most sophisticated terrorist proxy network, creating what they call the “Axis of Resistance.” Iranian-backed militias operate under various ideological banners, including “Wilayat Imam Ali,” which translates to “The Province of Imam Ali” and represents both a theological concept and an operational framework. These militias use this terminology to claim territorial control and justify operations as being under the spiritual authority of Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam.
In practice, “Wilayat Imam Ali” functions as branding for Iranian-controlled zones and supply routes, particularly in Iraq and Syria, where militia battalions linked to groups like Kata’ib Hezbollah and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba establish what they consider theocratic zones governed by Shia ideology. This shadow army includes Hezbollah in Lebanon, which receives $700 million annually from Iran and maintains over 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel while operating globally with attempted attacks reaching American soil.
Hamas in Gaza, responsible for the October 7th massacre, received over $100 million annually from Iran and receives training directly from Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Houthis in Yemen now control critical Red Sea shipping lanes, have attacked over fifty commercial vessels, and receive advanced Iranian weapons and training that enable them to threaten global commerce. Multiple Iraqi militias, all trained and funded by Iran, operate throughout Iraq and have been directly responsible for killing American soldiers and attacking U.S. facilities.
The cost of Iran’s proxy war against America has been devastating and measured in American blood. Over 1,100 U.S. soldiers have been killed by Iranian-supplied weapons and training in Iraq alone, with former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey confirming that “up to a quarter of the American casualties and some of the more horrific incidents in which Americans were kidnapped can be traced without doubt to these Iranian groups.”
Since October 2023, Iranian proxies have conducted over 170 attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Iraq and Syria, killing three American soldiers in Jordan through a drone attack and wounding dozens more in ongoing attacks across the region. These aren’t isolated incidents but part of a systematic campaign to drive American forces from the Middle East and establish Iranian hegemony.
Iran’s nuclear program represents the ultimate manifestation of its revolutionary ambitions and poses an existential threat to both regional stability and American interests. Despite repeatedly denying weapons intentions, Iran has enriched uranium to near-weapons grade levels exceeding 60% purity, restricted international inspectors from accessing key facilities, accumulated enough fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons, and developed ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel and U.S. allies throughout the region.
Current intelligence assessments indicate that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon within months if its leadership decides to cross that threshold, a timeline that grows shorter with each passing day as Iran continues to advance its capabilities while negotiations stall.
Iran continues to directly target U.S. military personnel across the Middle East, with Iranian Defense Minister recently declaring that “all U.S. bases are within our reach, and we will boldly target them in host countries.”
Iranian proxies already threaten critical shipping lanes and energy supplies that affect global markets and American economic interests. As the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would provide an unprecedented deterrent umbrella under which its terrorist proxies could operate with even greater impunity.
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