In the formation and equipping of the country's defence
forces, due attention must be paid to faith and ideology as the basic criteria.
Accordingly, the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps are to be organized in conformity with this goal,
and they will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers
of the country, but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in
God's way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God's law throughout the world
(this is in accordance with the Koranic verse "Prepare against them
whatever force you are able to muster, and strings of horses, striking fear
into the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them" [8:60]).
