Well, well, well. Looks like the New York Times is catching up with the Gormogons.

And [the IRGC’s] aggressive drive to silence dissenting views has led many political analysts to describe the events surrounding the June 12 presidential election as a military coup.
“It is not a theocracy anymore,” said Rasool Nafisi, an expert in Iranian affairs and a co-author of an exhaustive study of the corps for the RAND Corporation. “It is a regular military security government with a facade of a Shiite clerical system.”
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…Gen. Yadollah Javani, director of the corps’s political arm, warned the public that there was no room for dissent.
“Today, no one is impartial,” he said, according to the official news agency IRNA. “There are two currents: those who defend and support the revolution and the establishment, and those who are trying to topple it.”

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.