Rare Admission Of Past Tensions: Opposition Sympathies Among Iran’s Revolutionary Guards – Analysis

By Golnaz Esfandiari*

(RFE/RL) -- In a rare acknowledgement of past divisions within Iran's armed forces, a senior commander in the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has shone further light on a decade-old dispute that reached the highest echelons.

Speaking on state television, Mohammad Jafar Assadi said...