Talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal have stalled between Tehran and the signatory countries. The European Union has made a last attempt to try to revive the discussions by suggesting not to designate all of the Revolutionary Guards as terrorists while Tehran is asking Washington to remove this entity from its list of terrorist organizations.
Who are the Revolutionary Guards? What is the power of this paramilitary institution responsible for protecting the regime and safeguarding the achievements of the revolution, which has invested the military, political and economic sphere?
In Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guardspublished by CNRS editions, Stéphane Dudoignon, director of research at the CNRS and at the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, discusses the evolution of this entity, its durability and its power.