This analysis originally appeared in The Washington Institute For Near East Policy on January 5, 2022. The Supreme Leader and the IRGC are asserting more control over the task of monitoring and managing protest movements, creating yet another intelligence agency in the process. On December 8, Iran announced that it had restructured its national police force, a pillar of the regime’s internal security apparatus. Among other decisions, the organization’s name was changed from the Law Enforcement Force to the Law Enforcement Command (LEC). The addition of “Command” means that the…
Iran’s Law Enforcement Shuffle Reflects Concern About Protests
