Identifying Individual's mentality towards the Enemy's Infiltration Using Q Methodology

Nowadays, phrases like "the project of infiltration" is abundantly heard in statements repeatedly uttered by the Supreme Leader. He has frequently referred to the enemy's infiltration project, stating: "the United State's negotiations with Iran means infiltration; this is the way they define negotiations, and they want to pave the way for imposing (their will). The infiltration project is an all-out and well-organized attack, a programmed, organized and very artistic action designed to confuse right and wrong and also to translate the strong points into weak ones. In the process of designing infiltration, enemy shows himself as a friend, disguises truth as wrong, and wrong as truth, and strike their blow from the point where people are unable to analyze. The main objective of this article is to identify individual's mentality in relation to the enemy's project to infiltrate inside the country. The philosophical framework in this article is based on interpretive-positivist paradigms, falling in the category of applied research in terms of orientation. Identifying mentality draws this research closer to interpretive paradigms, and approaches positivist paradigms due to its using exploratory factor analysis, which uses solidarity strategy. In this way, the method of doing this research is of synthetic-type. It uses a qualitative method in stages of collecting the comments, using a quantitative approach in the stage of discovering the mentalities. The statistical population comprises senior commanders in one of the military centers that includes 10 experienced commanders who are familiar with the research topic. The findings indicate that these individuals have three mental patterns with regard to the issue of enemy infiltration. namely cultural infiltration, economic infiltration, and security-political infiltration.