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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

EP251 伊朗困局：四十年战略选择的代价与现实 adds the IRGC as Iran’s wartime continuity layer after high-level attacks. 刘仪 argues that after 2025 the alliance between IRGC leadership and technocratic officials had become the practical decision core, and that in the renewed war replacement commanders, prepared plans, and shorter command chains let smaller drone and missile actions continue despite leadership losses.

How to get through the Strait of Hormuz adds a maritime passage-control branch. Hamid Hosseini says an Indian ship owner contacted the Sepah Navy, identified by the source as part of the IRGC, to request Strait of Hormuz passage and later paid an alleged crypto toll. The claim remains tied to Hosseini’s account because the episode does not independently verify the underlying contacts.

Iran’s cyberwar on American banks extends the IRGC page from sanctions and crypto laundering into Iran-Linked Cyber Operations. In that episode, Rafe Pilling of Sophos identifies the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security as two main sponsors of cyber operations emanating from Iran.

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX’s IPO, Iran threatens U.S. tech firms and California’s new AI executive order adds a physical-infrastructure threat branch. The Marketplace Tech episode says the IRGC warned that U.S. private technology companies with Middle East infrastructure could be targets because their technology was allegedly used in attacks on Iranians, including Ali Khamenei. The wiki treats this as source-attributed threat language and connects it to Dual-Use Tech Infrastructure Targeting rather than as independent verification of any specific attack.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps appears in Crypto’s big growth on the books and in the shadows through Ari Redbord’s example of two Iran-based cryptocurrency exchanges allegedly used to launder illicit proceeds and evade sanctions. The episode says the U.S. Treasury later sanctioned those exchanges and a connected financial facilitator.

Iran, protests, and sanctions adds the IRGC as a political-economy beneficiary of sanctions. The Planet Money episode says the organization answers to the ayatollah while also operating as a major economic actor, and uses it to illustrate Sanctions Insider Consolidation: restrictions can reduce outside competition and hurt ordinary private life while strengthening regime-linked insiders.

In the wiki, the organization connects the Iran branch to both Stablecoin Sanctions Evasion and cyber operations. The crypto source uses the case to argue for targeted enforcement against illicit actors rather than suppressing lawful crypto use, while the cybersecurity source links the IRGC to DDoS, phishing, data theft, leak campaigns, and industrial-control risk.

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