Worried about defections, IRGC chief calls on forces to safeguard regime

NCRI – The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad-Ali Jafari, voiced worry on Tuesday over the increasingly obvious trend toward the Iranian regime’s downfall as well as the growing number of defections among regime forces, and called on the IRGC’s personnel to prepare to safeguard the survival of the theocracy.

According to the state-run news agency Fars, while in speaking in the city of Mashhad among IRGC ground forces commanders at the “Large Gathering,” Jafari said, “The IRGC’s objective is to prepare and increase its ability, raising the level of expertise in its operations, in order to confront all threats, including hard, semi-hard and soft threats, posed by the enemy. In this way, the IRGC can defend the Islamic Republic at all levels.”

In another part of his remarks, Jafari referred to the relentless trend of defections in the IRGC and described this period as one which has seen the most number of defections for the regime.

With respect to causes of this trend at the various levels of the regime, he said, “The majority of the challenges, problems, and defections occur as the government becomes more Islamic; There are some people who cannot align themselves with the progressive process of the Islamic Republic and the implementation of Islamic justice. That is why they choose to defect.”