Any deal has to meet four basic conditions. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. On August 23, 2012, I was a platoon leader with the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment—the Tomahawks—out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, when my unit was ambushed in an Afghan field laced with improvised explosive devices built with expertise exported by Iran’s Quds Force, the external arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Jason Church is a U.S. Army captain (retired), a combat-wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan, an attorney, and a graduate of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He writes here in his personal capacity. More on the Iran War