The Secret Will... of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Recently—within the realm of political imagination, not in intelligence archives—the “secret will” of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was uncovered. It was short and clear: If you cannot possess the state, paralyze it; if you lose the streets, terrorize them; if defeat draws near, burn the land and all upon it.

This is not a war plan, but an insurance policy against peace. The IRGC does not need strong nations that align with it; a strong nation holds its own decisions, whereas the IRGC seeks diseased maps that survive only on ventilators supplied from Tehran. Thus, it builds not allies but control rooms, and sends no support without an invoice; and the invoice is always paid in the sovereignty of the state and the blood of its people.

In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, names and flags change, but the operational catalog remains the same: weapons above state authority, war decisions outside state institutions, and a collapsing economy while speeches proclaim new victories. Ironically, the project that promises peoples “resistance” ultimately leaves them nothing to resist for: no stable electricity, no economy, no secure port, no fully sovereign state.

When the circle tightens around Tehran, it does not seek an exit that preserves the region; rather, it opens the doors to fire in others’ arenas. It seeks to convince the world that the cost of its project’s collapse must be borne by everyone—as if the Gulf, Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq were properties insured in the name of the IRGC.

But the will contains a clause its author forgot to write: fire does not check passports, nor does it stop at the borders of proxies. A scorched-earth policy may terrorize neighbors for a time, but it does not build an empire, nor does it protect a regime forever.

The IRGC does not fight to win; it fights to ensure that no one survives its defeat. Yet he who sows fires around his own home will one day discover that the wind… is Iranian.