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IRGC says safeguarding Islamic Revolution and Iran’s security ‘red line’
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Iranians ride their motorbike past a huge banner of former Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani ahead of the sixth anniversary of his assassination, at Valiasr Square in Tehran, on December 31, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warns that safeguarding security was a “red line,” as the clerical establishment stepped up efforts to quell the most widespread protests in years.
In a statement broadcast by state TV, the IRGC accuses terrorists of targeting military and law enforcement bases over the past two nights, killing several citizens and security personnel, and saying property had been set on fire.
Safeguarding the achievements of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and maintaining security was “a red line,” it adds, saying the continuation of the situation was unacceptable.
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