The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or sepah-e pasdaran-e enqelab-e eslami, was founded in 1979 shortly after the Islamic Revolution to protect the revolution against internal and external threats.

Authors

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  War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS

Sources

• War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS www.csis.org CSIS via serper

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• 1979 Iranian Revolution event
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps entity