Ministry of Revolutionary Guards#Ministers

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| formed = {{Start date|1982|11}}{{cite encyclopedia|title =JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI i. Hayʾathā-ye Moʾtalefa-ye Eslāmi 1963–79|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=February 20, 2013|orig-year=December 15, 2008|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|location=New York City|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jamiyat-e-motalefa-i|volume= XIV|last1= Rahnema|first1=Ali|access-date=March 15, 2016|series=Fasc. 5|pages=483–500|chapter-url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jamiyat-e-motalefa-ii|chapter=ii. Jamʿiyat-e Moʾtalefa and the Islamic Revolution}}

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| superseding1 = Merged into Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics

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| budget = $700 million {{small|(1987)}}

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Ministry of Guards ({{langx|fa|وزارت سپاه|Vezārat-e Sepāh}}) was a government ministry in Iran between 1982 and 1989,{{citation|title=The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG821.pdf|publisher=RAND Corporation|author=Frederic Wehrey|author2=Jerrold D. Green|author3=Brian Nichiporuk|author4=Alireza Nader|author5=Lydia Hansell|author6=Rasool Nafisi|author7=S. R. Bohandy|year=2009|page=110|isbn=978-0-8330-4620-8}} which mainly acted as a ministry of defence dedicated to logistically supply the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. By having its own ministry, the Corps were able to acquire a powerful voice in the cabinet of Iran.{{Citation|author=Daniel Byman|author2=Shahram Chubin|author3=Anoushiravan Ehteshami|author4=Jerrold D. Green|year=2015|title=Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era|publisher=RAND Corporation|url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1320.html|page=35|isbn=978-0-8330-2971-3}} It also implied greater regulation and supervision over the Corps by placing its acquisitions and purchases under and the audit and purview of the government.

It mirrored the existing parallel Ministry of National Defence (the word "National" was dropped in 1984) which solely supported and addressed the administrative affairs of the Iranian Army (Artesh) during these years.{{Citation|last1=Sinkaya|first1=Bayram|year =2015|title=The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations|publisher=Routledge|pages=55–56|isbn=978-1-317-52564-6}} In 1989, it was dissolved and reintegrated into the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), in order to centralize military logistics among the Iranian Armed Forces.