RAPHAEL: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Is A Modern-Day Nazi SS

In the past few years, the cavalier use of the term ‘Nazi’ by those on the Left and the comparison of modern times with how things were during the World War II era has sadly watered down the gravity and horror of the Nazis’ crimes against humanity. Nothing in modern Western society comes even remotely close to the horrors of the evil Nazi regime. Yet when people compare words and policies they do not like to Nazi crimes, they do both Third Reich survivors and the millions of victims of anti-Semitism a devastating disservice.

But there are certain times when the comparison is relevant and, indeed, accurate. The death of Qassem Soleimani presents one such opportunity. It is important to understand the gravity of his role — and what Iran had planned next. The late Soleimani and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) formed — and still form — a modern-day version of Heinrich Himmler and Nazi Germany’s genocidal SS special police force. The IRGC’s elite Quds Force is a modern-day Iranian version of the Waffen-SS of the pre-World War II era.