It's a tale of two Iran armies. One, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is stacked with loyalists and designed to guard the theocratic regime, estimated to be 150,000 strong.
The object -- roughly 20 centimeters long with a flat end -- was first photographed by the Curiosity Rover in 2022 in Gale Crater and recently flagged by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb i ...