The study of the survival of terrorist organizations and the variables involved in it is a new dimension in the study of terrorism.
Among these, the intelligence activities of these organizations as the pulse of their lives, is of great importance in these studies.
As a terrorist organization, from the very beginning of its existence, ISIS had a powerful and expert intelligence and counter-intelligence organization that had all aspects of its activities under its vast aristocracy.
But this aristocracy was associated with external pressures, developments, and requirements that changed the organizational form and the way it operated.
Accordingly, the present study in dealing with ISIS as a social entity, seeks to answer why and how ISIL's intelligence actions, by adopting a sociological institutional framework.
Based on the findings of the present study, it shows that ISIS's intelligence action is initially imitative and has shifted from the nature of intelligence to ideological cover. Hands out of the control and nobility of the organization were clustered.
In the present study, the data collection tools are library and interviews with elites are informed and the data analysis method is descriptive-analytical.
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