Espousing a radical ideology and a paranoid worldview, the IRGC uses secret police methods against its opponents within Iran, and terrorist tactics against its enemies abroad.
The IRGC is an Iranian government agency tasked with defending the regime against internal and external threats.
Through a network of linked front companies, the IRGC has also created a dominant stake in Iran’s economic sector while exerting control over strategic industries to ensure loyalty to the supreme leader. Zarif alleged he had “zero” influence over Iran’s foreign policy and had “never been able to tell a military commander to do something in order to aid diplomacy.” “In leaked recording, Iran’s Zarif criticises Guards’ influence in diplomacy,” Reuters, April 26, 2021. In April 2021, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif complained in an interview the IRGC had more influence in foreign affairs and the country’s nuclear dossier than him. The Quds Force also plays a key role in support of Syrian regime forces in that country’s civil war.ĭomestically, the IRGC exerts political and economic control throughout Iran.
In the years since, the Quds Force has armed anti-government militants in Bahrain, and assisted in a 2011 assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. The Quds Force allegedly participated in the 1994 suicide bombing of an Argentine Jewish community center, killing more than 80 and wounding about 300. The IRGC’s Quds Force specializes in foreign missions, providing training, funding and weapons to extremist groups, including Iraqi insurgents, Hezbollah, and Hamas. After the contested 2009 Iranian presidential elections, for example, the Basij brutally quashed protests and attacked student dormitories. Today, the Basij has two missions: to provide defensive military training to protect the regime against foreign invasion, and to suppress domestic anti-regime activity through street violence and intimidation. The Basij is famous for its recruitment of volunteers, many of them teenage children, for human wave attacks during the Iran-Iraq war. Within the IRGC are the Basij militia and the Quds Force (IRGC-QF). The Basij, literally “mobilization,” is a paramilitary organization charged with channeling popular support for the Iranian regime. The IRGC is Iran’s main link to its terrorist proxies, which the regime uses to boost Iran’s global influence. It is rigidly loyal to Iran’s clerical elite. The IRGC is Iran’s primary instrument for exporting the ideology of the Islamic Revolution worldwide. The IRGC combines traditional military roles with a relentless focus on supposed domestic enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is tasked with preserving the Islamic Republic of Iran and the ideals of the 1979 revolution.
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