Lawfare Archive: Afshon Ostovar on Iran's Revolutionary Guard
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🗓️ 2 January 2022
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From February 11, 2020: Afshon Ostovar is the associate chair for research and an assistant professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also the author of "Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards." The IRGC has been in the news of late because of the killing of the head of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Ostovar about the fallout from the Soleimani killing, how it is all playing in Iran, and why things are so quiet. They talked about whether people made a mountain out of a molehill at the time the killing happened, or whether the blowback just hasn't happened yet.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.2 | Right laptop, I'm ready to finish this thesis. |
| 0:34.2 | What thesis? |
| 0:35.2 | The one I've spent two years working on. |
| 0:36.7 | Don't have it. |
| 0:37.7 | What's the last version you saved? |
| 0:39.4 | Got final version, final final version, and no, I'm actually serious now. |
| 0:42.9 | This is the last version I will never save another version I promise, version two. |
| 0:46.7 | Surely that one? |
| 0:47.7 | No. |
| 0:48.7 | Why? |
| 0:49.7 | It's corrupted. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Jacob Schultz and it's the LawFair podcast January 2nd, 2022. |
| 1:19.4 | Today from the archives, we're bringing you an episode from February 2020. |
| 1:25.2 | It's a conversation between Benjamin Wittis and Afshan Asivar, an assistant professor |
| 1:29.9 | of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. |
| 1:33.3 | Tomorrow, it's the two-year anniversary of the killing of the head of the Kudz force |
| 1:37.8 | of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Kassam Soleimani. |
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