Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
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The IRGC, which Annie brought up earlier.
So the I stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, not Iranian.
What does that mean?
It's protecting the Islamic Revolution.
It is an ideological army that sits outside of the main structures of power, accountable only to the supreme leader.
The national army really goes through the office of the presidency and others, even though the Supreme Leader has a say in it.
But the army's job is to protect Iran's borders.
The IRGC's job is to protect the revolution and the ideology and the proxies and everything else that we have come to know about Iran.
So if we look at what's in the jar, we have to separate what the national army, which only its job is to defend the borders, versus the ideological army.
I'm curious what that would look like if we took out the National Army and are left with the ideological force.
Israel claims that in the June war of last year, it eliminated about half of Iran, what it believes Iran stockpiles, but also batteries, launchers, basically capability.
So whatever it was, let's say they have half of that left.
I've seen statistics saying that really they can't go at this rate, Iran, for more than two to three weeks before they're completely depleted.
And that's one of the major strategic areas that we made in attacking Iran.
They have the benefit of time, not us.
They can choose how to react, when to react, in what way to react.
We don't know if they have a dirty bomb that they're finishing up in some underground bunker right now.
They're just going to sit there and wait until American boots on the ground show up.
The fact that you guys think that current nuclear deployments have nothing to do with what's going on in Iran, I want to respect that opinion.
But to me, it shows just a lack of military experience and actual strategic –
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