At first glance, the militant movement Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) appear to represent opposite poles of the Islamic world. ISIS is rooted in radical Sunni jihadism, while the IRGC defends a Shiite revolutionary state born from the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
The Ideological Parallels Between ISIS and the IRGC
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/ April 7, 2026