{"id":54793,"date":"2021-12-16T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/12\/16\/iran-more-than-doubles-revolutionary-guards-budget-in-fy22-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:02:49","slug":"iran-more-than-doubles-revolutionary-guards-budget-in-fy22-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2021\/12\/16\/iran-more-than-doubles-revolutionary-guards-budget-in-fy22-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran more than doubles Revolutionary Guard\u2019s budget in FY22 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIRUT \u2014 Iran will spend on its Revolutionary Guard next year more than double the amount allocated in 2021, according to a budget bill submitted by President Ebrahim Raisi to parliament on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the legislation for fiscal 2022, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will receive 930 trillion rials (U.S. $22 billion). Last year, the force was given a budget of 403 trillion rials. The country\u2019s conventional military, which last year received 212.79 trillion rials, is to get about 339.68 trillion rials (U.S. $7.99 billion) for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Iranian rial barely fluctuated from around April 2018 to December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Micha\u00ebl Tanchum, a senior associate fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy and a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute, told Defense News that Tehran\u2019s minimum strategic goal \u2014 beyond political survival \u2014 is to ensure the state of the region\u2019s security architecture accommodates its national interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe IRGC, through its use of proxy militias, drones, unconventional naval warfare and missiles, cost-effectively provides Tehran the ability to inflict costs on its neighbors to ensure this deterrent capability, as seen from the attacks on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/19\/saudis-couldnt-stop-attack-on-oil-facilities-even-with-top-us-defenses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s Abqaiq oil processing facility<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/06\/14\/the-us-and-iran-have-engaged-in-deadly-combat-before-over-gulf-tanker-attacks-heres-what-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\">UAE\u2019s Fujairah oil port<\/a>, among others,\u201d Tanchum said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guard\u2019s blend of unconventional tactics and hybrid warfare has expanding Iran\u2019s sphere of influence to the shores of the Mediterranean and the Red seas, he added. From Iraq to Yemen, the tactical combination has made Saudi Arabia vulnerable on both its northern and southern land borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the increased budget, further advances in the IRGC aerospace division\u2019s capability to use ballistic missile[s] and next-generation UAVs could shift the strategic equation in Iran\u2019s favor without countervailing action <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2021\/12\/13\/saudi-arabia-decreases-defense-spending-to-46-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the part of Saudi Arabia<\/a> and the UAE,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president\u2019s bill also allocated 955 trillion rials (U.S. $22 billion) for the Defence Ministry; 46 trillion rials to the joint military forces command (which essentially reviews military strategies and responsibilities); and 7.7 trillion rials to the Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe increased budget aims to replenish expertise and materiel killed and depleted by proxy wars in order for the IRGC to keep their edge for any external attack or internal disruption brought by failed nuclear talks, as well as lost resources and possible upcoming brinkmanship escapades in regional operations theaters,\u201d according to Yusuf Mubarak, a Bahrain-based military researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guard, which makes up about 10% of Iran\u2019s overall armed forces, is independent of Iran\u2019s regular Army and is tasked with safeguarding the Islamic Republic, which was formed after the 1979 revolution. In that context, Mubarak said, the Guard is considered Iran\u2019s core military force when it comes to protecting the government. And if internal unrest should unfold, he told Defense News, Iran\u2019s conventional military is not expected to be as heavy-handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government also doesn\u2019t rely on those conventional services to spearhead external offensive missions, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIRGC members have been systematically isolated \u2014 and engineered demographically and ideologically \u2014 to be indifferent to the people of Iran should they be ordered to oppress them,\u201d Mubarak explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guard\u2019s relatively advanced, homegrown ballistic research and development capabilities are derived from Chinese and Russian technology, he said. \u201cThis means that should advancing the IRGC\u2019s capabilities and Iran\u2019s regional agenda better serve Sino-Russian strategies against the U.S. and the West, the Arabian Gulf states most exposed to Iranian proxies might witness a spike in the number and complexity of the attacks through enhanced missiles and drones using Eastern tech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An April report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found Iran\u2019s military spending fell by 3% in 2020 to $15.8 billion. The report said the decrease was part of a downward trend that started in 2018, when the U.S. reinstated economic sanctions over Iran\u2019s nuclear activities. Iran\u2019s military spending fell by 20% between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran\u2019s fiscal year starts March 21, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation for Iran&#8217;s fiscal 2022 budget showns the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will receive $22 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