Here is a link to another column discussing the internal conflict in Iran. Eric Florack writes at PJ Media that Iran could be en route to a civil war featuring the IRGC vs. the civil government.
The IRGC, he claims, reports both directly and exclusively to the Supreme Leader, the top Ayatollah. He likens it to a company, I think it more nearly resembles the Knights Templar.
The Templars were a Catholic military order that became so powerful and wealthy eventually the Pope saw them as a threat to his own power. He excommunicated them and had them slaughtered.
Florack is right about one thing, if the IRGC cannot continue spreading havoc across the Middle East and beyond, they have no reason to exist. So don’t expect them to “go quietly.” If they go at all it will as the Templars went - violently.
