INSIGHT-Iranian nuclear deal set to make hardline Revolutionary Guards richer
Guards are economic and political as well as military power * IRGC-controlled firms could make up a sixth of GDP * IRGC has already positioned itself for arrival of foreign firms VIENNA, July 6 (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have done very well out of international sanctions -- and if a nuclear deal is done in Vienna this week under which those sanctions are lifted, they are likely to do better still. The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more ...
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