Iran’s South Pars natural-gas field has extensive infrastructure that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineering… TEHRAN— Ebadallah Abdollahi, a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was surprised last summer to find one of his top projects being second-guessed. A confidential review ordered by the government called for scaling back a multibillion-dollar bullet-train project in which he was deeply involved, cutting some of its costs and allowing Western companies to bid for part of the work, said people who saw the report. Since then, two European companies have negotiated with Iran for a piece of the project, with talks in one case continuing. Iran is riven by a behind-the-scenes skirmish over the economy, one that was sharply accelerated by the country’s 2015 deal with world powers to curb the country’s nuclear program. During years of sanctions that kept away many foreign companies, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stepped into the void, […]