Iran may be edging toward Pakistan's model of power concentration: A system where elected leaders remain in office, but the military-security establishment holds the real levers of authority.
Reports of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tightening its grip on government functions, isolating President Masoud Pezeshkian, and controlling access to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei evokes an old pattern seen in Pakistan, where the army has long overshadowed civilian rule and turned elected governments into managed facades.
