The IRGC was created to serve the revolution, not the nation. Four decades later, it has become a state within a state , economically powerful, ideologically entrenched, and the central target in the current military conflict.
Pakistan spent weeks warming up to Trump. Then the US-Israeli campaign against Iran began. Now Islamabad faces a dilemma it did not choose, with no clean option in sight.
Lebanon ordered Hezbollah to disarm after rockets broke a 15-month ceasefire with Israel, triggering airstrikes that killed at least 31 people. It is the government’s most assertive move against the group in decades.
