ifmat - Iran IRGC – a spent force

Iran’s IRGC – a spent force

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei presides over a pyramid of corruption, at the centre of which is the sinister Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the regime’s Gestapo, which answers directly to Khamenei and controls almost the entire ...
ifmat - Examining Iran ever-expanding role in Syria and Iraq

Iranian presence in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province

At the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, the Iranian government announced it would provide strategic support to the Bashar al-Assad regime without direct military intervention. However, as the conflict wore on and opposition forces began ...