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How the Iranian Regime Plans to Survive Its Own Collapse
(Times of Israel) Catherine Perez-Shakdam - When the Islamic Republic begins to crack, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will move, according to plans already rehearsed, to ensure that the regime does not truly end but merely changes costume. The IRGC was built to protect the architecture of power. It was designed as the regime's guarantor: an armed ideology with its own intelligence organs, its own patronage and procurement networks, and its own commercial empire. It has spent decades perfecting its survival doctrine. The IRGC will present itself as the sole barrier between Iran and chaos. It understands that anxious populations can be stampeded into accepting the familiar jailer as the price of avoiding an unknown disorder. Iranians must reject the seductive lie that stability requires the continued dominance of the very apparatus that destroyed civic life. Stability is not the continuation of fear. Stability is the restoration of law. The writer is an associate scholar at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.