Hassan Abbasi

U.S. Army Colonel Sean J. Corrigan, in a 2011 research project entitled "Exploitable Vulnerabilities of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps", names Abbasi as one of the two "key architects of Iran's doctrine of asymmetric warfare", along with Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari.{{cite journal|last1=Corrigan|first1=Sean J.|title=Exploitable Vulnerabilities of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|date=12 October 2011|page= 6|url=http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA568444|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619201732/http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA568444|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 19, 2017|accessdate=13 October 2017|series=USAWC Civilian Research Project|publisher=Defense Technical Information Center}} Jahangir Arasli, an Azerbaijani intelligence analyst, wrote in 2007 that Abbasi was among those in charge of devising the concept of asymmetric response at Imam Hussein University.{{cite journal|last1=Arasli|first1=Jahangir|title=Obsolete Weapons, Unconventional Tactics, and Martyrdom Zeal: How Iran Would Apply Its Asymmetric Naval Warfare Doctrine in a Future Conflict|series=Occasional paper series|date=April 2007|issue=10|page=12|url=http://www.marshallcenter.org/mcpublicweb/mcdocs/files/College/F_Publications/occPapers/occ-paper_10-en.pdf|accessdate=13 October 2017|publisher=George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies|issn=1863-6039|archive-date=12 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912203543/http://www.marshallcenter.org/mcpublicweb/MCDocs/files/College/F_Publications/occPapers/occ-paper_10-en.pdf|url-status=dead}} Historian Meir Litvak states that Abbasi holds anachronistic views and is among contemporary proponents of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Iran.{{cite book|first=Meir|last=Litvak|chapter=Iranian Antisemitism and the Holocaust|title=Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives|editor1=Anthony McElligott |editor2=Jeffrey Herf|isbn=9783319488660|publisher=Springer|year=2017|page=210}}

After Clifford May,{{cite magazine|last1=May|first1=Clifford D.|authorlink1=Clifford May|title=Ahmadinejad's Brain|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/112601|magazine=National Review|accessdate=13 October 2017|date=31 October 2005}} Amir Taheri has dubbed him "the Kissinger of Islam" in a The Telegraph article,{{cite web | last=Taheri | first=Amir | title=The frightening truth of why Iran wants a bomb | website=Telegraph.co.uk | date=2006-04-16 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3624382/The-frightening-truth-of-why-Iran-wants-a-bomb.html | accessdate=2017-04-26}} and also quoted an anonymous European diplomat in Tehran saying "to Iran's new ruling elite, Abbasi is the big strategic brain".{{cite news|author=Taheri, Amir|author-link=Amir Taheri|url=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545454/posts|title=An Adventure That Can Backfire|newspaper=Free Republic|date=8 October 2005|access-date=7 August 2016}} In 2004, Michael Ledeen claimed that he serves as "theoretician" in the office of Supreme Leader of Iran with a special responsibility for North American affairs.{{cite magazine|title=No Way Out|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/210809/no-way-out-michael-ledeen|first=Michael|last=Ledeen|authorlink=Michael Ledeen|date=26 May 2004|magazine=National Review|access-date=7 August 2016}} In a paper presented by Shmuel Bar, Rachel Machtiger and Shmuel Bachar at the Herzliya Conference in 2008, Abbasi is deemed as one of the IRGC prominent figures who "is said to be affiliated with Mesbah Yazdi... a supporter of the Hojjatiyeh and of Ahmadinejad... one of the main contributors to Ahmadinejad's strategic thought".{{cite conference|title=Iranian Nuclear Decision Making under Ahmadinejad|url=http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2814ShmuelBarIranianAhmadinejad.pdf|first1=Shmuel|last1=Bar|first2=Rachel|last2=Machtiger|first3=Shmuel|last3=Bachar|conference=8th Herzliya Conference|page=19|date=20–23 January 2008|access-date=19 August 2016|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402163527/http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2814ShmuelBarIranianAhmadinejad.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Raz Zimmt classifies him among the prominent figures of the radical right wing of Iranian politics, along with Mehdi Ta'eb, Alireza Panahian, Said Qasemi and Qasem Ravanbakhsh who all serve in the central committee of 'Ammar Headquarters', an IRGC-affiliated institution established in 2011.{{cite journal|last1=Zimmt|first1=Raz|title="The 'Ammar Headquarters" and the challenges of the Iranian political system|url=http://humanities1.tau.ac.il/iranian/en/previous-reviews/10-iran-pulse-en/37-iranpulse-49feb5-2012|journal=Iran Pulse|number=49|publisher=Tel Aviv University|accessdate=15 October 2017|date=5 February 2012}} According to a 2012 report edited by Raz Zimmt, Abbasi is "one of the major theoreticians of the radical wing in the conservative camp and the Revolutionary Guards".{{cite web|title="Syria, the First Line of Resistance" conference in Tehran: "Sword of Damocles doctrine is Syria's trump card against the West"|date=July 2012|page= 2|url=http://www.terrorism-info.org.il//Data/articles/Art_20370/E_152_12_286677861.pdf|number=152|volume=12|series=Spotlight on Iran|publisher=Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center|editor=Raz Zimmt}} In 2014, a security research of Hewlett-Packard claimed that the «Basij Cyber Council» operates under the direction of Abbasi.{{cite journal|title=Threat Actors Operating within the Islamic Republic of Iran|date=21 February 2014|volume=Episode 11|page=5|url=https://community.saas.hpe.com/dcvta86296/attachments/dcvta86296/off-by-on-software-security-blog/442/1/Companion%20to%20HPSR%20Threat%20Intelligence%20Briefing%20Episode%2011%20Final.pdf|accessdate=15 October 2017|series=HP Security Research Threat Intelligence Briefing|publisher=Hewlett-Packard|archive-date=16 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016014409/https://community.saas.hpe.com/dcvta86296/attachments/dcvta86296/off-by-on-software-security-blog/442/1/Companion%20to%20HPSR%20Threat%20Intelligence%20Briefing%20Episode%2011%20Final.pdf|url-status=dead}} In February 2019, he gave a speech condemning President Hassan Rouhani, Speaker Ali Larijani, and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for having supported the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action telling them to "go to hell" and that the Iranian people would "spit" on them, seen as expressing the IRGC's growing resentment over the nuclear deal and its fallout. Shortly thereafter, Javad Zarif tendered his resignation, although Rouhani did not accept it.{{cite news |title=Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif resigns |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/iran-foreign-minister-zarif-resigns-190225201531240.html |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=Al Jazeera English |date=25 February 2019}}

• Ali Akbar Raefipour

• Alireza Panahian

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