Fighting True Believers

We know that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the heart of the dictatorship.

Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi is a hardline Iranian military commander appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on March 1, 2026.

The greatest miscalculation in planning the war with the Iranian religious dictatorship may have been assuming a level of rationality and practicality that simply does not exist …