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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf from police command to managerial repression

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: From Police Command to Managerial Repression

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Introduction: The Security Logic That Survived Command   On 7 January 2026, one day before the principal lethal escalation of the nationwide uprising, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf chaired a closed parliamentary session in Tehran. Ahmad-Reza Radan, commander of FARAJA, the regime’s national Law Enforcement Command, and a deputy intelligence minister briefed MPs on the security and […]

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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the survivor network in the post-Khamenei power architecture

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: The Survivor Network in the Post-Khamenei Power Architecture

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Introduction: The Man Who Survived the System   Any serious attempt to map the Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf power network has to begin with a problem that conventional factional analysis cannot explain. There is no formal organisation carrying his name, no stable military bloc publicly answerable to him and no evidence that the senior commanders, security

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