In 1979 they became the backbone of the newly formed Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has deployed quite a few tactics to circumvent sanctions.
The third is control of the armed forces, notably the Revolutionary Guards and the basij.
Accordingly, the materials are destined for the "Revolutionary Guards", the main force protecting the Iranian regime.
SCIRI's militia - the Badr force - has overt ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Among them are some prominent members of the Revolutionary Guards and companies that they control.
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Last Wednesday the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps threatened that US commander Gen.
Some of these youngsters are members of the Revolutionary Guards, others belong to the Islamic basij militia.
Indeed, both the Badr militia and SCIRI were created in Iran in 1982 by the Revolutionary Guards.
The Revolutionary Guards are an elite unit of the Iranian military which operate their own naval forces.
It took over the barracks on Sept. 16, 1983, with the help of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
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The Shi'ite holy city of Najaf is also veering toward becoming a protectorate of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
In fact, Cuban officers were incorporated into the army and Iranian Revolutionary guards were reportedly seen in Venezuela.
Accordingly, Iran's Revolutionary Guards would have to think long and hard before unleashing its own capabilities against Israel.
If by some strange twist of fate the Revolutionary Guards should lose a bid, they take it by force.
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At the time of the attack, Gen Vahidi was the commander of a special unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
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He expanded the Revolutionary Guards Corps' control over the country by making it the indispensable guardian of the revolution.
As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama opposed defining Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
Khomeini made him Minister of the Revolutionary Guards to quash internal dissent and smuggle in weapons for the Iran-Iraq war.
Prominent Iranian politicians and clerics have led mourners at a funeral for a senior commander of the country's Revolutionary Guards.
The mullahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards will ensure that he never runs out of bullets to kill his people.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards are sent to Venezuela to among other things train Venezuela's security services in methods for repressing internal dissent.
He also alleged that Iran was in breach of the United Nations charter by sending its own Revolutionary Guards to Lebanon.
State Department officials suspect that such operations may be sponsored by one of the foundations and semiautonomous units of the Revolutionary Guards.
The remaining two candidates, former parliament speaker Mehdi Karrubi and onetime Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaie, drew 2 percent and 1 percent.
"IRGC's electronic warfare systems detected electronic signals, which indicated that foreign drones intended to enter our country, " said Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Lt.
Today Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iran's Hizbullah terror cells, and other Iranian agencies operate in open collaboration with anti-US governments throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Informed sources say that the elite Revolutionary Guards recently held a meeting to map out a strategy for pushing him out of office.
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The US accuses Mr Arbabsiar, a US citizen with an Iranian passport, of working with the Quds Force, part of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
Interestingly enough, the Quds force was established as a special branch of the Revolutionary Guards to help export the revolution through subversion and terrorism.
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