Should the regime survive, hardliners believe the IRGC’s influence will be ever greater After fighting an eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard returned from the battlefields demanding greater power in the system it defended. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered. Today the guards are in another existential fight,... [7574 chars]
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