Iran: Co-architect of IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp) Speaks

Mohsen Sazegara co-founded the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1979, and served the Islamic Republic until 1989 in a number of senior government positions, including deputy prime minister for political affairs and managing director of the National Radio of Iran. He went into exile after being imprisoned in 2003, and is currently a visiting researcher at Harvard University.

He warns in this piece that what Was Once a Revolutionary Guard is now Just a Mafia, "Today the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution — known in Farsi as the Sepah-e Pasdaran and in English as the Revolutionary Guard — is a mafia-like organization with a corrupting influence on Iran’s army, police, media, industries, judiciary and government. It is imperative that every effort now be made to contain the Revolutionary Guard’s powers, because its political and economic adventurism will ultimately lead to a serious crisis, not just in Iran but also across the Middle East."

As a co-architect of the IRGC, he also takes us through a series of tactical and strategic decisions that was taken in Paris by Khomeini et al and his ilk that gave rise to IRGC . It's a long read but well worth it....click here.