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EPISODE · Apr 24, 2026 · 46 MIN

I Built the IRGC: Inside Iran’s ‘Monster’ Machine

from The Threat Podcast · host Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali

This week on The Threat, Jay and Hagar sit down with Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian dissident who, in his earlier life, helped create Iran’s most lethal military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a top aid to the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Sazegara described to us how the IRGC grew into a multi-headed “monster”; how Tehran oversees its terror cells in the West, and what he sees as the most effective way for the U.S. to help promote regime change in Tehran. Have a listen.

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