Trump Tries to Bribe IRGC General as per Venezuela Playbook
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Trump Tries to Bribe IRGC General as per Venezuela Playbook
Robin Westenra Aug 20 2026 Trump’s White House tried to buy off Iran’s Revolutionary Guard with a multi-billion-dollar offer modeled on the Venezuela playbook — and got refused twice, first by IRGC commander Vahidi, who called it treason, and then by Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, who told Trump directly that Islamabad would not help...
The Trump administration tried unsuccessfully to buy the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to break the Iranian state, a copied strategy of Venezuela that failed in the face of the ideological resistance of the Shiite regime. Donald Trump wanted to buy a general. Not any general: the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ahmad Vahidi. The offer: several billions of dollars. The method: the "divide…
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