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How Iran’s parallel armies and intelligence services protect the regime

Name: How Iran’s parallel armies and intelligence services protect the regime
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T18:58:09Z
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: Iran operates a deliberately complex military structure designed to prevent coups and absorb shocks. The country maintains two parallel armies—the regular Artesh and the ideological Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—alongside multiple intelligence services and layered command structures, all ultimately answering to the Supreme Leader. The IRGC's Aerospace Force controls Iran's...

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