Explaining the operation of the sincere promise on the internal and external Islamic revolution depth

Alizadeh,, Azim; Safavi,, Seyed Yahya; Alizadeh,, Alireza; Sharghi,, Somyeh; Sheikh,, Ali

doi:10.22034/fasiw.2025.471690.1370

Explaining the operation of the sincere promise on the internal and external Islamic revolution depth

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Azim Alizadeh, ¹

Seyed Yahya Safavi, ²

Alireza Alizadeh, ³

Somyeh Sharghi, ⁴

Ali Sheikh, ⁵

¹ Assistant Professor and Academic Member, Sepibod Institute of Sacred Defense Sciences and Education, Martyr Hajj Qasem Soleimani Guards, Tehran, Iran

² Distinguished Professor, Department of Geopolitics, Imam Hussein (AS) University, Tehran, Iran

³ MA in Philosophy, Imam Khomeini Institute, Qom, Iran

⁴ Level 2 Student and Researcher in the Futures Studies Department, Tehran, Iran

⁵ MA in Information Technology Management, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/fasiw.2025.471690.1370

Abstract

The strategic miscalculation of the Zionist regime in attacking the consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria provided an opportunity for the country to adopt, in accordance with international law, an operation with strategic and non-strategic consequences, avoiding direct confrontation with the United States and the Zionist regime, which would have profound effects on the national and international levels that need to be explained. Conducting this research will help to better understand, analyze, and explain the impact of Operation True Promise on the strategic deepening components of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, as well as to create awareness and a common vision in explaining the impact of Operation True Promise on domestic and foreign strategic deepening.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, with Operation True Promise in the face of the Zionist regime's strategy based on a shock blow and the doctrine of preemptive action in attacking the Iranian consular section in Damascus, as the essence of the Tel Aviv strategy, while challenging the Zionist regime's strategy, has had important strategic consequences in deepening the Islamic Revolution internally and externally with the two goals of obtaining national security benefits and repelling threats to the Islamic Revolution, the components of which need to be explained. The type of research is applied and developmental in terms of purpose and has a descriptive-analytical nature. The methodological approach of the research is a mixed exploratory one, and the community of expertise of this research includes defense, security, and strategic experts of the country and the expert sample includes 14 experts with doctoral degrees in fields related to national security, strategy, and political science with at least 20 years of experience and responsibility in the relevant executive field and in a purposeful manner to the level of theoretical saturation. To analyze the collected data, thematic analysis was used to categorize and classify the research elements, and statistical analysis was used with tests such as Lavish coefficient, rank average using SPSS software, and Cronbach's alpha factors and composite reliability were used to examine validity and reliability. The results of the research include the impact of Operation True Promise on 5 internal components and 11 external components of deepening the Islamic Revolution, including emphasizing the need for wise and courageous leadership in society, increasing the social capital of the armed forces, promoting national pride, conveying the message of negation of hegemony and subjugation to the international community, effective in reducing or changing the approach of confrontation and competition of some countries in the region, etc.
In this study, based on direct reference to the study of texts, articles, and scientific sources, and then utilizing the knowledge, aristocracy, and documented experiences of elites, senior managers, and experts, the internal and external deepening components affected by Operation True Promise were formulated, and after confirmation in the focus group, the desired questions were extracted from the questionnaire and the opinions of experts were obtained. The results of the study show that the most important effects of Operation True Promise on the internal deepening of the Islamic Republic of Iran are, respectively: emphasizing the need for wise and courageous leadership in society, increasing the social capital of the armed forces, promoting national pride, emphasizing the development of the country's defense capabilities, and the necessity of national endurance and stability (resilience) against threats. Also, the most important effects of the Honest Promise operation in deepening the external position of the Islamic Republic of Iran are, respectively: conveying the message of negation of hegemony and subjugation to the international community, effective in reducing or changing the approach of confrontation and competition of some countries in the region against the Islamic Republic of Iran, effective in emphasizing relations based on the principles of honor, wisdom, and expediency, effective in developing strategic depth and presence in the enemy's vital areas, effective in strengthening popular groups aligned with the Islamic Revolution of Iran, effective in promoting Iran's role in regional and international developments, effective in promoting international prestige, effective in recognizing Iran as a reliable ally, increasing its influence on decisions of international forums, effective in creating readiness to confront the unipolarization of the world and the hegemony of the United States over the world, effective in recognizing the Islamic Republic as a model for countries and negating rival models of governance, which is based on reliability based on Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability, the level of agreement with the Lavesche coefficient, and the significance with the average. A ranking was presented and explained.

Keywords

"Operation True Promise

Strategic Deepening

Islamic Revolution"

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