An op-ed by Mohsen Sazegara, a co-founder of the Revolutionary Guard, which the page text indicates appeared in The Forward. He explains that the Guard was designed as a people's army meant to prevent coups. He argues it went wrong in three ways: Rezai's clique prolonged the war with Iraq, the Guard moved into business under Rafsanjani, and it entered politics under Khamenei. He recounts his own 2003 imprisonment and urges Iranians and the world to contain the Guard.