{"id":204691,"date":"2026-04-22T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/irans-revolutionary-guards-tighten-grip-on-power-as-civilian-leadership-sidelined\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:29:41","slug":"irans-revolutionary-guards-tighten-grip-on-power-as-civilian-leadership-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/irans-revolutionary-guards-tighten-grip-on-power-as-civilian-leadership-sidelined\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards tighten grip on power as civilian leadership sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard has evolved from a theocratic wartime force into a dominant military-economic power. Over decades, it expanded regionally, reshaped Iran\u2019s internal balance of power, now standing at the centre of a shifting political structure amid leadership changes and consolidation. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/22\/irans-revolutionary-guards-tighten-grip-on-power-as-civilian-leadership-sidelined\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard has evolved from a theocratic wartime force into a dominant military-economic power. Over decades, it expanded regionally, reshaped Iran\u2019s internal balance of power, now standing at the centre of a shifting political structure amid leadership changes and consolidation. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":204692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}