More powerful than the army and worth billions of dollars: Revolutionary Guards dominate life in Iran

On the streets of Tehran they are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Their logo appears on construction cranes, oil tankers and missile installations. Their men brutally suppress protests, their businessmen divide the most lucrative government contracts among themselves. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is not an ordinary army – it is a state within a state, with tentacles in every vital sector of Iran.

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