Rise of IRGC: From Guardians to Powerbrokers

Namaskar,We bring to you the podcast on the Rise of IRGC i.e. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran and how they have over the years captured the Iranian economy, military and its oil economy. The podcast goes on to discuss the IRGC’s role in sidelining the religious clerics or the mullah regime specially after Nuclear Deal fallout with USA and assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. We further go on to discuss how Iran under IRGC has formed strategic alliances with China in 2021 and Russia since 2022 so much so that it has even built a working relationship with North Korea for decades now.We explore how Israel military campaign since March 2024 has taken out Iranian proxies from Hezbollah to Hamas to the Syrian militias. This has ended up challenging IRGC’s Axis of Resistance. The podcast in its final part talks about Iranian Nuclear program and possibility of Israeli-US military operation on its Nuclear installations that could potentially trigger a regional war and devastate the global economy and oil trade. The region and the world are sitting on tenterhooks as last ditch diplomatic efforts are being made to roll back Iranian nuclear program. Its a fascinating deep dive on the developing situation in Persia and the wider middle east. For detailed in depth analysis you can read the full blog over here.We really hope you like podcast. Do like and share the same. Kindly do subscribe to Niti Shastra on Substack, YouTube (NitiShastraIndia), Spotify and Apple Podcasts.RegardsNiti Shastra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nitishastra.substack.com