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Jiang argues that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard wants war with the United States because of U.S. support for the Shah, protection of Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Trump's killing of Qasem Soleimani.
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IRGC
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The regime has hardened. There is lots of signs of the rally around the flag, which I and many others like me predicted. Ideologically,..."
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He says it is possible that the Revolutionary Guard killed President Ibrahim Raisi because Raisi was preventing war.
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In the same frame, the Revolutionary Guard wants to force a U.S. invasion because it expects the United States to lose, allowing Iran to kill Americans, humiliate them, and avenge past injuries.
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Jiang identifies the IRGC as the institutional actor that would benefit from Mojtaba Khamenei becoming Ayatollah after Raisi's death.
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The IRGC was created because the revolutionary leadership distrusted the regular army's loyalty to the Shah and wanted a separate armed force loyal to the revolution.
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Jiang defines the regular military as responsible for protecting the nation, while the IRGC protects the revolution and the Ayatollah and exports the revolution abroad.
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Jiang argues that the Iran-Iraq War made the IRGC the dominant military group in Iran because it protected the revolution against foreign invasion.
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Jiang says the IRGC's monopoly of power and control of a large share of the economy produced corruption and economic stagnation, alongside the effects of Western sanctions.
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"The regime has hardened. There is lots of signs of the rally around the flag, which I and many others like me predicted. Ideologically,..."
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"stays in power so I think there are many factions within Iran that are very concerned that if this war continues the Revolutionary uh..."
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"this as an opportunity to destroy the Americans once and for all, even at the cost of their own society. So it's a real..."
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"...for Operation Scorpion Strike. But it was all about eliminating the IRGC's capabilities of imminent strike with the ICBMs."
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"And guess what else we found out? We found out they had working hypersonic ballistic missiles. These are ballistic missiles that traveled over 15,000..."
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"That's how easy it actually is. So denigrate the IRGC, eliminate the head of the snake, which is the Ayatollah, which we know there's..."
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"So what we're seeing in Iran is a classic color revolution playbook, right? Where you flood information space, you control information space. Where you..."
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"Israel might intervene with Arab campaigns, but the regime will still stand. So the big question is what's going to happen in Iran? If..."
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"Because if things go sideways, then it's going to be a lot of conflict. And if the GCC were to enter in a conflict,..."
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"And that's why when the U.S. military is given the order to invade Iran, they'll probably go along with it because they cannot imagine..."
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"So they want war with the United States. So you see the map, right? You see the logic of this, where there are powerful..."
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"Right? They want to kill as many Americans as possible. Okay? You understand? They want to force an American invasion. Okay? So, Iran wants..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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