Rouhani and Trump: Together against Iran's Men with Guns?

by Amir Taheri  •  July 9, 2017 at 3:00 am

Soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on parade with their tanks during "Sacred Defense Week," on September 21, 2012. (Image source: ypa.ir/Wikimedia Commons)

These days something strange is happening with regard to Iran. You might say: so what? Strange things have been happening with regard to Iran ever since the mullahs seized power in 1979.

Alright, but what is happening now may merit closer attention because it represents an unprecedented convergence between the thinking of the Trump administration in Washington, on the one hand, and that of one of the factions involved in the power struggle in Tehran, on the other.

Last month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that the Trump administration is putting final touches to a new policy on Iran with the ultimate aim of regime change. While details of this new policy remain a mystery, one thing maybe clear: one of its aims would be the dismantling of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which US experts identify as the mainstay of the Khomeinist regime.

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