Iran IRGC Not Seizing Control, Taking Ayatollah Hostage

موقع رويترز هو مصدرك عبر الإنترنت لأحدث أخبار إيران، مما يضمن بقاء قرائنا على اطلاع بأي تطورات عاجلة.

Iran's IRGC has reportedly taken control of key state functions, blocking President Masoud Pezeshkian's appointments and isolating Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

An IRGC commander, Ahmad Vahidi, has reportedly taken over Iran as a ceasefire with the U.S. is set to expire.

OFAC is designating three individuals for their support to Iran-based Pishgam Electronic Safeh Company (PESC) and its chief executive officer (CEO), Iran-based Hamid Reza Janghorbani (Janghorbani). PESC has procured thousands of servomotors with one-way attack UAV applications, which have been found in downed Shahed-136 UAVs, for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization (IRGC ASF SSJO).

Iran, Baghaei said, "will use every opportunity and capacity to hold the aggressors accountable and to realize Iran's rights, including administering justice to the perpetrators and founders of war crimes and demanding compensation." ... The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy confirmed its interdiction and seizure of two vessels on Wednesday which it said were "attempting to secretly exit the Strait of Hormuz." The IRGC Navy named the two vessels as the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas.

ابقَ على اطلاعٍ مع أحدث التحديثات حول إيران من قبل الجزيرة. استكشف المقالات العميقة والتحليلات وأخبار اللحظة، برعاية فريقنا المكرس من الصحفيين.

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But there have nevertheless been no major defections in the governing system in Tehran, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spearheading the war effort. Khamenei was replaced by his son, Mojtaba, who has yet to make a public appearance since his selection as supreme leader last month. Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem explained that Trump’s assertion about fractures in the Iranian leadership is likely a “misconception”. “Iran has a very unified leadership since the assassination of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,” Hashem said.

US officials separately told Axios on April 20 that the US negotiating delegation thought it was “negotiating with the right people“ in Islamabad on April 11 and 12 but that the IRGC effectively told the Iranian negotiating delegation upon their return to Tehran that they ”don’t speak for” the IRGC.[2] Senior regime officials, including former IRGC Intelligence Organization Chief Hossein Taeb, reportedly called the Iranian negotiating delegation back to Tehran after it surpassed its mandate.[3] A second US official told Axios that “we aren’t sure who’s in charge and neither do

The Quds Force reports directly to the supreme leader of Iran, most recently held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei until his assassination in 2026. After Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated in a U.S. drone strike, his deputy, Esmail Qaani, replaced him. The U.S. Secretary of State designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in 2019 based on the IRGC...

Most interpretations of this mandate assert that it entrusts the IRGC with preventing foreign interference in Iran, thwarting coups by the traditional military, and crushing "deviant movements" that harm the ideological legacy of the Islamic Revolution.

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