IRGC Seizes Wartime Power, Undermining Iran’s Supreme Leader

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has consolidated authority amid its conflict with the United States and Israel. The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the elevation of his son Mojtaba have shifted decision-making from a single clerical arbiter to top IRGC commanders. Wartime pressures have narrowed power to a hard-line circle within the Supreme National Security Council and the IRGC. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and parliament speaker Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf handle diplomacy, but IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi drives strategy on the ground. Analysts say the new structure slows Iran’s responses and hardens its stance in talks with Washington. Proposals differ on sequencing nuclear and shipping issues, and neither side wants to appear weak under domestic or electoral pressure.

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