"The Revolutionary Guard started to intervene in economic and financial affairs in Iran, " Sazegara said.
"The Iranian Revolutionary Guard was formed in May 1979, almost immediately after the revolution, " Reidel said.
There is also a less accountable intelligence service, which belongs to the Revolutionary Guard.
Unconfirmed reports said they were held under house arrest by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The detained Britons later accused Iran's Revolutionary Guard of forcing them into Iranian waters.
And secondly, our focus on the Revolutionary Guard I think is quite consistent with this.
Since then, its men have been trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and by Hezbollah.
The Iranian government denied rebel claims that the 48 captives were members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
"Many, many elements within the security forces, within the Revolutionary Guard, are showing discontent, " Pahlavi said.
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"You can call the Revolutionary Guard a kind of government inside the government of Iran, " he said.
What bothered him most, he says, was when the Revolutionary Guard turned its attention to making money.
Unconfirmed reports said they were held under house arrest by the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
This will target the entire Revolutionary Guard as a business entity as well as a military unit.
They were allegedly held under house arrest by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, although Tehran never acknowledged their presence.
Former Revolutionary Guard leader Sazegara says he became disillusioned with the organization as they gained more power within Iran.
The Revolutionary Guard -- the pictures that we saw on Monday that the President reacted to, that was them.
She is mourned publicly despite Revolutionary Guard threats, and her likeness graces posters.
Analyst Bruce Reidel was a CIA officer focused on Iran when the Revolutionary Guard established itself as a major force.
Rapidly losing its popular base, the regime is becoming increasingly dependent on its coercive forces, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
He is the author of the new novel about the CIA and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hollow Strength.
Hizbullah trainers also worked at al-Qaida camps in Sudan and al-Qaida operatives also trained at Revolutionary Guard camps in Iran.
The Revolutionary Guard, part of Iran's military, says no such incident took place, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
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The defense secretary cited the Badr Corps, a military force he said is trained and equipped by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard corps said it will pursue legal action against Web sites that it said were inciting people to riot.
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Muqtada al-Sadr came to his exalted position as militant leader of Shiite extremists by conspiring with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
For his part, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a belligerent, Holocaust-denying populist, is determined to stay put, with the Revolutionary Guard behind him.
In 1980, when Iran and Iraq went to war, the Revolutionary Guard acted as human waves in some of the toughest battles.
The sanctions were aimed at Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the biggest branch of its military, which exerts significant influence in the country.
He said it found a network of jamming systems scattered around big cities operated by the Revolutionary Guard, Iran's elite military unit.
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They are aimed at testing the precision and efficiency of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' warheads and missile system, the reports said.
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