CI/Foreign Intel Services Training

This course serves as an introduction to Iranian Intelligence and Counterintelligence Services and examines the origins, structure, missions, operations and methodologies of these services.

Beginning with the modern history of Iran and the SAVAK that viewed many of its own nationals as enemies of the state, you will learn how the Shah was overthrown and Khomeini took power, transforming Iran into a Shia theocracy.

These events led to a closer relationship between Islamic terrorist groups and the Iranian intelligence services.

The course explores these relationships and implications for the world today, as well as the efforts by Iran to control its own increasingly dissatisfied citizens.

Iranian collection targets in the US, the Middle East and around the world are also explored.