VOA: Interview with Yan St-Pierre – Will Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Support Nuclear Deal?

July 21, 2015

Heather Murdock from VOA News interviewed Yan St-Pierre on Iran’s nuclear deal and the revolutionary guards’ role in it:

The Revolutionary Guards may not have a direct vote on the deal, but as Iran’s elite forces in a region in conflict, the notoriously opaque organization increasingly has a de-facto say in major policy decisions, added Yan St-Pierre, who heads Berlin-based security firm MOSECON. “They’re the guardians of the system in many ways, but they’re also those that ensure Iran … is in a position to defend itself,” St-Pierre explains. “And that strength gives it a large influence on how foreign policy is conducted.”

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