According to a video on CBN News, on Wednesday June 3, 2026, CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell warned that a significant portion of Iran’s most feared military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, may be held together not by ideology but by money, raising serious questions about the regime’s long-term stability.
During his interview with anchor Gordon Robertson on The 700 Club, Mitchell discussed the potential consequences of Iran’s deepening financial crisis.
He explained that Iran has for decades relied on the IRGC and a network of foreign militias to maintain political and military control both at home and across the wider Middle East. However, that arrangement, he suggested, is built on a foundation that money alone sustains.
In his words, Chris Mitchell said, “From what I’ve heard, maybe up to half of the IRGC and the militias that Iran has brought in from Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, they’re there for the money.
“Now, whether or not if they don’t get paid, do they defect? Do they leave? It remains to be seen. And could that be part of the cracks in the regime?” he said.
Mitchell noted that the Iranian government is currently losing an estimated five hundred million dollars a day and is, in the words of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, at the end of its financial tether.
Against that backdrop, he suggested, the loyalty of paid fighters and foreign militia members becomes increasingly uncertain.
The correspondent expressed cautious hope that financial pressure could eventually produce visible cracks within the regime’s security structure.
He described the scenario as something many observers and policymakers are watching closely, noting that defections or withdrawals among paid fighters could signal the beginning of a broader institutional breakdown within the Iranian system….See More
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