The IRGC’s Economic Stranglehold: Why Israel’s Pressure Is Iran’s Best Hope for Liberation
Peloni: This is an important article. The Hudson Institute fellow, Mike Doran, recently made the argument that Pres. Trump prefers Regime Transformation to Regime Change, and that it was due to the integral aspect of the IRGC’s command over Iran’s entire economy. In the following essay, Jalal Tagreeb provides an important detailed look into how this stranglehold on Iran’s economy came to be and how that relates to the current attempts at regime change.
By Jalal Tagreeb
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Screengrab via Youtube
For decades, Western analysts have debated the best means of dismantling one of the most destabilizing regimes on the planet. The Islamic Republic of Iran has exported terrorism, funded proxy armies, pursued nuclear weapons, and brutalized its own people — all while hiding behind a veneer of ideological legitimacy. But the key to understanding both the regime’s resilience and its ultimate vulnerability lies not in theology or geopolitics alone. It lies in economics. Specifically, it lies in the vast, corrupt, and parasitic financial empire of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — and in how Israel’s sustained military and strategic pressure is now accelerating the conditions that could finally bring that empire crashing down.
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Iranian missile debris in Judeae & Samaria. Screengrab via X
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