{"id":593210,"date":"2026-04-29T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=593210"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:39:08","slug":"irgc-commander-is-current-decision-maker-in-iran-says-think-tank-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=593210","title":{"rendered":"IRGC commander is &#8216;current decision maker&#8217; in Iran, says think tank report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has emerged as Tehran&#8217;s &#8220;current decision maker,&#8221; according to the latest analysis by the Institute for the Study of War think tank.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/04\/21\/Iran_Who_Runs_Iran_5_591_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"IRGC commander is 'current decision maker' in Iran, says think tank report\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has emerged as Tehran&#8217;s &#8220;current decision maker,&#8221; according to the latest analysis by the Institute for the Study of War think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}