The IRGC General Who Wants to Run Iran Like a Business

Saeed Mohammad is the first active-duty presidential candidate in Iranian history, but can his precedent-breaking campaign win?

Saeed Mohammad in IRGC uniform in his office at Khatam al-Anbiya.

The presidential campaign announcement of Second Brigadier General Saeed Mohammad was about low-key as it could get.

The announcement came off of a vertical video someone else had recorded, with Mohammad’s face not even fully in frame. There’s almost an energy of something amateurish, with …