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Bookmark or Share- Iran's Basij force: specialists in cracking down on dissentIranian security forces, including the pro-government Basij militia, are trying to quell growing nationwide protests that erupted after a woman died in the custody of the morality police last...
- The Basij: Overview of Iran’s Paramilitary ToolThe Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz’afin (“The Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed”), aka Basij, is a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) characterized as a paramilitary militia. Iranian Revolution leader Ayatollah Khomeini established the group in 1979.
- What we know about the Basij, the paramilitary volunteer group cracking ...During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the Basij led notorious "human wave" attacks against Saddam Hussein's army, with large numbers of poorly armed fighters perishing as they raced across ...
- A feared Iranian militia is leading the crackdown on protesters. Who ...Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned a deputy commander of the Basij, accusing him and the militia of killing unarmed protesters on “numerous occasions.”
- Basij - The Modern InsurgentSâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin, or the Basij, is an Iranian paramilitary militia organized under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC). Formed in the wake of the Iranian Revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini, Basij members, often called Basiji, are tasked with quelling domestic unrest and enforcing the decrees of the Ayatollah within Iran.
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