The Role of Socialisation in Shaping Internal and External Ascendancy of the Islamic Organisations in Iran

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue IV, April 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

The Role Of Socialisation in Shaping Internal and External Ascendancy of the Islamic Organisations in Iran

Omar Gomaa¹, Sivamurugan Pandian^2*, Nur Hafeeza Binti Ahmad Pazil^3
1Master candidate at School of Social Sciences, Anthropology and Sociology, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
²,³Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Correspondent Author*

Abstract
This paper examines the role of socialization and its impact on the Iranian armed organizations, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),Basij and Al-Quds Force. This paper also examines the role of the Iranian school as an agent of socialisation beneath the secularism rule prior to the collapse of the Shah and currently beneath Islamic Shia rule. Furthermore, the paper highlights the internal ascendancy of Iran clergy against the dissenters of the Iranian Islamic Revolution and externally against the Western and Israeli interests, besides the fight in Syria against the Sunnis. The paper argues that the reason for establishing the Iranian organisations, Basij, IRGC, and Al-Quds Force is not for exporting the Iranian revolution behind the Iranian borders, but to muzzle the voice of Iran dissenters on Iran soil, and overseas. For this reason, the crucial of socialisation on the Iranian soil had successfully established stalwart organisations that work beneath Wilayat Al Faqih

Keywords: Iran, Basij, Al-Quds Force, IRGC, Shia, Sunni

BACKGROUND ON IRAN

In Arab accounts, Iran is recognised as a nemesis of Islamic Sunni and Arabs (Khalaf, 2020). Some Arabs still believe that Iran was the base of the Persian Emperor who fought against the Islamic expansion. However, after the collapse of the Persian Emperor, the Persians embraced Islam. Hence, some Persians adhered to the idea of Shia doctrine to support the family of Prophet Mohamed against his companions, who demolished the Persian Emperor as a method of vindictiveness. Consequently, the Persians were the main culprit of assassinating Omar Bin Khattab, the second caliphate of the Prophet. They successfully instigated the chaos during Uthman Bin Affan, the third caliphate after Prophet Mohamed (Ali & Post, 2015). Ever since the existence of the state of Shiites in Iran, the abomination took place between Shiites and Sunnis during the Iraq-Iran war. Ultimately, the Iranian armed Organisations on the Syrian soil fight the Syrian revolution alongside Bashar al-Assad, the current Syrian President, who belongs to a different doctrine of Shiites, Alawites (Goodazri, 2015). Hence, this paper examines the method of socialisation implemented by Iranian organisations to shape individuals to bear peremptory and able to fight b

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