This piece was originally published on EJIL: Talk!

Over the past decades—and even more visibly after the accelerated rise of Mojtaba Khamenei—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has consolidated itself as the regime’s true center of command.

The current standard methodology in forensic DNA typing relies on amplification of short tandem repeat (STR) markers by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and allele sizes (i.e., length-based) ...