Friday 28 August 2009 19.00 BST Ayatollah Khomeini asked in his will that the military be kept out of politics. But they control more of the country than ever President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... Read more

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1915918,00.html The shadowy Revolutionary Guards already oversee a 130,000-strong parallel army and run large swatches of Iran’s economy,... Read more

http://www.cfr.org/publication/13466/sadjadpour.html Interviewee: Karim Sadjadpour, associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor Ma... Read more