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TopicIranian Revolutionary Guards

Topic: Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Indian crew on ‘diesel smuggling’ tanker seized by Iran free to leave, stay due to ‘technical issues’

Indian embassy in Tehran is coordinating with authorities to facilitate the return of Indian crew on the vessel seized last Friday in the Gulf of Oman, it is learnt.

Iran-Israel conflict: Decades of covert operations and proxy warfare to current confrontation

Israel-Iran flare-up is the latest in a series of conflicts Iran has seen since the establishment of the Islamic republic after the 1978–79 revolution.

Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq prepared to disarm to avert escalating conflict with Trump

Move follows warnings issued privately by US officials since Trump came to power, according to Reuters. Groups fear American airstrikes & now have Revolutionary Guard's blessing to disband.

US charges Iranian man in alleged plot to assassinate Trump ordered by Revolutionary Guards Corps

Farhad Shakeri, an alleged IRGC operative, is accused of planning to kill Donald Trump under orders from Iran’s elite military unit. Two New Yorkers also charged for aiding the plot.

‘Iran’s retaliation against Israel could take time,’ says Revolutionary Guards spokesperson

Hamas leader Haniyeh was killed hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel neither confirmed nor denied it was behind the killing.

Afghanistan emerging as a deep security hole. Can Iran’s revolutionary generals see it?

Iran's large but suppressed democratic constituencies are gravely dismayed by losing a key democratic ally and inspiration.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.