Iran’s New IRGC Power Bloc Tightens Grip Under Mojtaba
Mojtaba Khamenei has installed a hardline IRGC cohort—Vahidi, Taeb, Jafari, Ghalibaf, Rezaei, and Abdollahi Abadi—as senior military decision-makers, reinforcing regime control at home, expanding coercive capabilities, and pushing a more confrontational foreign posture, including deterrence and potential offensive actions abroad, while sidelining moderate voices and signaling a tougher stance in negotiations with the United States.