How One Force Took Over a Country: Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

In recent developments, conflicting signals from Iran — from shifting positions in negotiations to incidents in the Strait of Hormuz — have raised a deeper question: who really makes decisions inside the country?In this episode, we take a step back and examine the rise of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From its origins as a small ideological force in 1979 to becoming a powerful military, economic, and political actor, we reconstruct how it expanded its influence across nearly every sector of the state.By tracing its role in war, infrastructure, regional strategy, and internal power dynamics, we explore why this organization is often described as a “state within a state” — and what that means for Iran’s future and the region.#Iran #IRGC #Geopolitics #MiddleEast #Military #Politics #GlobalSecurity #Analysis