The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: حرس العراق الجمهوري Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003, primarily during the presidency of Saddam Hussein.It later became the Republican Guard Corps, and then the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC) with its expansion into two corps. The Republican Guard was disbanded in 2003, after the ...