Since December 28, fierce protests have erupted across Iran, threatening to topple Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime. Since the start of the protests, regime forces and secret police have retaliated with unbridled violence claiming the lives of a reported over 30,0000 Iranians, suppressing the protests. The regime has shuttered internet access across the country to hide reports of massacres. Unlike previous protests in Iran, protesters are not calling for reform; they are calling for an end to the dictatorship. However, momentum is waning as the protests are suppressed. Without proper support from the United States, protesters are doomed to be stifled at the hand of the regime. And the best way to provide support for the Iranian people is to weaken the Islamic Republic from the inside.

The best approach for the United States to hasten the end of the Ayatollah’s regime is to fracture the rigid hierarchy of the Islamic Republic: the regime’s most powerful means of preserving itself. Since 1979, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have played an........

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