Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2014

Iran's Evolving Maritime Presence

Michael Eisenstadt, Alon Paz

March 2014

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

The growing capabilities of Iran's navy will enhance the country's soft power and its peacetime reach, while providing an alternative means of supplying the "axis of resistance" if traditional means of civilian transport become untenable.