hard to do much else when the army hardly gets any funding. and this is a serious mistake as the government is shutting out a large pool of talented Iranians.
only a certain group can and will join the IRGC. there is actually a very strict vetting process where they make sure you are religious and ideologically loyal to the government.
lets be honest and face it. the average early 20s Iranian male by and large does not fit into that category. so what this does is it reserves Iranian funding and resources for a select group of people. while enormous talent gets wasted in the artesh because they simply don't have the funding to be anything more then a force in being.
its simple numbers here: IRGC gets 3-4x times the official budget of the artesh while being only about a 3rd in size. in addition to this, the IRGC has its own vast revenues streams that probably augment their official budget at least by x2 times.
this is not a very efficient system. as much as its a sensitive topic and a lot of people like the status quo. the reality is its not efficient. we have a lot talent being wasted with motivated and loyal Iranian troops doing almost nothing in the artesh.
only a certain group can and will join the IRGC. there is actually a very strict vetting process where they make sure you are religious and ideologically loyal to the government.
lets be honest and face it. the average early 20s Iranian male by and large does not fit into that category. so what this does is it reserves Iranian funding and resources for a select group of people. while enormous talent gets wasted in the artesh because they simply don't have the funding to be anything more then a force in being.
its simple numbers here: IRGC gets 3-4x times the official budget of the artesh while being only about a 3rd in size. in addition to this, the IRGC has its own vast revenues streams that probably augment their official budget at least by x2 times.
this is not a very efficient system. as much as its a sensitive topic and a lot of people like the status quo. the reality is its not efficient. we have a lot talent being wasted with motivated and loyal Iranian troops doing almost nothing in the artesh.