Read our Privacy noticeIran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has grown into a powerful force within the country's theocracy, answering only to its supreme leader and overseeing its ballistic missile arsenal and launching attacks overseas. Born out of a revolutionThe Guard rose out of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution as a force meant to protect the country's Shiite cleric-overseen government and later became enshrined in its constitution. Since the latest Israel-Hamas war, Israel has arrested citizens it has accused of receiving orders from Iran to surveil targets or conduct vandalism. Israel and Iran exchanged missile fire, something overseen by the Guard. In its first day, those strikes killed top generals in the Guard, throwing the force into disarray.