Basij

...television yesterday during a meeting with Revolutionary Guard commanders and the affiliated paramilitary Basij forces. Mousavi's statement said the Basij, the street wing of the Guard, was created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father...

In this article: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Etemad, Khameini, and Tehran

...Wednesday during a meeting with Revolutionary Guard commanders and its affiliate paramilitary Basij forces. Mousavi's statement said the Basij, the street wing of the Guard, was created as a popular body to serve the public and not...

In this article: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islamic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Tehran, and Etemad

...would cover regions where Iran's nuclear facilities are located. The drill involves Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the paramilitary Basij forces affiliated with the Guard as well as army units. The United States and its European allies...

In this article: Iran, United States, Israel, Uranium, and Barack Obama

Iranian clerics, who are members of the Basij militia affiliated to the Revolutionary Guard, chant the slogan "death to Israel", during a ceremony commemorating 30th anniversary of the Basij foundation, at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, in...

In this article: Kian Tajbakhsh, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Tehran, United States, and Defendant

...population. In recent weeks, the government has announced a variety of new ideological offensives. It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and it has...

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