# CIA and Mossad must eliminate Ghalibaf to break Iran’s continuity machine

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/cia-and-mossad-must-eliminate-ghalibaf-to-break-irans-continuity-machine/
- Published: 2026-11-05T11:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T11:37:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Washington Examiner (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4785873/mohammad-bagher-ghalibaf-irgc-linchpin-regime-collapse/
- Topics: Middle East, Politics, World

## Key points

- The article casts Ghalibaf as a link between Iran’s Guard and political system.
- It alleges he transferred at least 23 properties to the Guard’s intelligence unit.
- Some sites were allegedly used to detain protesters.

## Summary

The article argues that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is a key figure linking Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s wartime command, construction interests and political institutions. It presents this role as significant to the regime’s ability to maintain continuity and control.

It says that, during his time as Tehran’s mayor from 2005 to 2017, Ghalibaf transferred at least 23 properties to the Guard’s Intelligence Unit through a project called “Martyr Shateri”. The article values the sites at 645 billion rials, or about $15.6 million at the time, and alleges that some were later used as secret detention and interrogation centres during protests in 2009, 2017 and 2019.

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