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Iran: IRGC Revamps To Counter Enemy Within
FOX News ^ | July 24, 2008 | By Alizera Jafarzadeh

Posted on 07/25/2008 9:32:28 AM PDT by Fennie

The ayatollahs continue to enrich uranium, despite the high profile meeting on July 19, in Geneva between Tehran's top nuclear negotiator and senior western diplomats representing the Group of 5+1. No surprise there. They are banking their regime's survival on nuclear capability. Ali Larijani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator, once said that giving in to the West's demands that Iran suspend its enrichment would be suicide.

But, however much their regional role is tied to developing a nuclear weapon, domestically their grip is being challenged on a daily basis. Indeed, the backbone of the ayatollah's regime, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), is being revamped at great haste, primarily to cope with rising dissent. The region's changing geo-strategic dynamics coupled with sanctions targeting the IRGC, and its terrorist elite unit, the Qods Force, are also factors...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; geopolitics; iran; iraq; israel; proliferation; wot

1 posted on 07/25/2008 9:32:28 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

WAKE UP AMERICA, before it is too late !!!


2 posted on 07/25/2008 9:44:00 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Sorta Stalinesque


3 posted on 07/25/2008 9:45:16 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: benjamin032

More like Savakesque.


4 posted on 07/25/2008 9:48:26 AM PDT by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: IGOTMINE
More like Savakesque.

Yep. And it isn't unprecedented, either - the Tsarist Okhrana led straight to Dzerzhinski's Cheka, the OGPU, the NKVD, the KGB... The one constant in an evolving police state is, well, the police.

Decentralization of this sort of authority carries with it its own hazards. In Dzerzhinski Lenin had one throat to choke. One may expect to see a certain attrition among the 31 regional bosses, and the command of the two in Tehran will be very jealously watched posts. If this is the typical pattern there are two so that one may watch the other. The Romans found out what happens when there is only one Praetorian Guard.

It doesn't bode well for the Iranian people. This sort of thing chokes economic activity in an already difficult time by diverting a major cut of black market funds to the private coffers of the corrupt, or suppressing it altogether. And the black market is one consistent infrastructure of revolution within all police states, and the police know it.

I don't see it decentralized for very long, frankly. That's just too dangerous. If the rest of the world (i.e. the U.S. in this case) is going to pursue a program of regime change it is within this structure that we are most likely to find a successor to Ahmadinejad. The police know that too.

5 posted on 07/25/2008 10:40:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Fennie

The wolves are starting to think about which of their pack to kill- good.


6 posted on 07/25/2008 10:44:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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