ABSTRACT
During the five years from the end of the Iran-Iraq War to 1993, the Iranian Armed Forces were effectively licking their wounds. They were incapable of posing a threat to Iran’s close neighbors. But from 1990 on, a number of processes commenced that were designed to give Iran “decisive strategic capabilities” by the second half of the 1990s--assuming, of course, the absence of outside intervention or new domestic constraints.
