The public, albeit indirect, exchanges between Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) head Mohammad Ali Jaffari have been making headlines in the Iranian media.
In a Dec. 8 speech at an anti-corruption conference, Rouhani said, “We have to eliminate the consolidation of power. With the consolidation of power in one institutions, corruption is created. … If the guns, the money, the newspapers … are gathered in one place, there will be corruption.”