India, Jan. 28 -- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran has few state actors that have transformed the security dynamics in the Middle East to the extent that it has transformed the security relations. The IRGC has been formed with the purpose of safeguarding a revolution, and has become a proxy war, a cross-border power broker incorporating elements of military force, ideology and proxy warfare. Its impacts have now reached the furthest corners of the Mediterranean region all the way to the Red Sea and the effects of the same are felt far beyond the area.

The IRGC was formed in 1979 following the Islamic Revolution in Iran but it functions alongside the conventional army but is only answerable to the Supreme Leader. It controls ...