Iran: Major Security Shake-Up, IRGC Intelligence Chief Replaced

By Golnaz Esfandiari

(RFE/RL) — Hossein Taeb, a hard-line cleric, was the intelligence chief of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of the armed forces, for over a decade. But in a surprise move, the IRGC announced on June 23 that it had removed Taeb from his prominent post.

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