The Grip on Power in the Cloak of Law (Persian)
By Roozbeh Mirebrahimi
The Grip on Power in the Cloak of Law tells the story of how the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) emerged from the upheaval of the 1979 revolution and gradually transformed into one of the central pillars of the Islamic Republic, tracing its path from an improvised revolutionary force with no clear legal standing to an institution tightly wrapped in statutes, parliamentary approvals, and the language of necessity. The book follows key moments in which violence, ideology, war, and law became intertwined, showing how legality was not used to restrain power but to legitimize and preserve it. At its core, this is a story about how revolutions harden into systems, how institutions learn to survive by clothing themselves in law, and how the IRGC came to grip the state—its politics, economy, and future—from within the very framework meant to regulate it. Buy it now!
