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Iranian Regime Concerned about Losing Loyalty of Security Forces
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Oded Ailam - In recent days, there have been reports of a massive deployment of "Sarallah" units, the Revolutionary Guard forces responsible for securing Tehran, at central squares and strategic intersections. A clear sign of the regime's concern about losing loyalty among local policing forces is its growing reliance on external actors. Reports from recent days indicate the arrival of "advisors" and special units from the Shiite militias in Iraq to the provinces of Khuzestan and Sistan-Baluchestan, as well as Tehran and Mashhad. The regime also continues to recruit stateless Afghan refugees into the Fatemiyoun Division. The writer, former head of the Counterterrorism Division in the Mossad, is a researcher at the Jerusalem Center.