Who’s The Boss? -- Washington Free Beacon
Expert: Iran’s military has trumped its religious apparatus
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “has become a hostage” of an elite branch of Iran’s army that has quietly consolidated its economic and political power, a top analyst said Tuesday.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) appears to have supplanted Khamenei and other top clerics in a significant power shift that has left Iran a “military dictatorship,” according to Ali Alfoneh, who has spent years investigating the IRGC.
Khamenei “has become a hostage in the hands of his own praetorian guard,” Alfoneh said Tuesday during a discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
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My Comment: I disagree with this analysis. I just do not see the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps being in a position to dictate to the clergy on what to do .... and even if they tried, I doubt that the mullahs will give up power so easily. What we actually have is a co-existence .... both groups are dependent on the other to maintain their power and influence.
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