By

Cameron Keyani

IRGC History and Role in Iranian Statecraft

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) (Sepaheh Pasdaraneh Enghelabeh Eslami) was originally constituted to protect the values and goals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran.[1] In 1979, it was a body answerable only to the new religious leadership of the fledgling Islamic Republic. The IRGC now defines its mission beyond the state of Iran...