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Why Iran's Fate Lies in the Revolutionary Guards' Hands

Decades of Western sanctions have supercharged the rise of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from a branch of the military established to protect the 1979 Islamic revolution to a gargantuan economic and political force. The IRGC's influence will not end even if it puts down the protests and it will play a pivotal role in what happens next. Bloomberg's Patrick Sykes reports.