Iran Focus: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps constitutes the backbone of clerical rule in Iran and is controlled directly by supreme leader Ali Khamenei. It plays a central role in all security, intelligence and military matters and its top brass occupy numerous government posts. It has also turned into a major financial conglomerate, controlling large portions of Iran’s economy, especially in the oil and gas industries. As a result, most trade and oil contracts signed by Iran necessarily involve the IRGC. Iran Focus will be publishing a 2-part review of the IRGC in our Intelligence Report on Tuesday and Wednesday. Journalists seeking advance copies of the full report should contact our editorial team.
Iran Focus
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps constitutes the backbone of clerical rule in Iran and is controlled directly by supreme leader Ali Khamenei. It plays a central role in all security, intelligence and military matters and its top brass occupy numerous government posts. It has also turned into a major financial conglomerate, controlling large portions of Iran’s economy, especially in the oil and gas industries. As a result, most trade and oil contracts signed by Iran necessarily involve the IRGC.
Iran Focus will be publishing a 2-part review of the IRGC in our Intelligence Report on Tuesday and Wednesday. Journalists seeking advance copies of the full report should contact our editorial team.
