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Old 07-06-2009, 01:37 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
So what the Iranian National Guard is not part of the Army? WTF are they then?

It's a military force that answers directly to the supreme leader, which might have been okay when it was just a small elite forces group, but during the Iran/Iraq war, it grew to be as large as the Iranian Army. It has it's own army, navy, air force, and I think it controls most or all of Iran's missiles. I think Captain Crunch had a post about the history of it in the other Iranian election thread (but I may have been wrong and read it somewhere else).
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