اطلاعات سپاه

IRGC-IO reports up the IRGC chain to the Sepâh's commander-in-chief, who reports to the Supreme Leader. It does not answer to the cabinet, the president, or the intelligence minister. It runs Ward 2-A inside Evin Prison (separate from MOIS's Ward 209). It runs its own informant network, its own interrogators, its own cyber unit. It handles cases the regime considers existential: Mahsa-era journalists, dual nationals held for hostage diplomacy, military-related espionage, the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists (the investigations, not the killings). It is, in effect, the Supreme Leader's personal counterintelligence service with a uniformed cover.