DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard faces new sanctions from U.S. President Trump as he accuses the country of violating the spirit of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. But what is this organization? BORN IN REVOLUTION The Guard formed out of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution as a force meant to protect its Shiite-cleric-overseen government and later enshrined in its constitution.