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And the government's hard-line supporters have become even more conspiracy-minded. It's worth noting that some members of the Basij militia who attacked the British embassy last November were carrying pictures of another recently assassinated nuclear...
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(AFP/Getty Images) # Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and members of the Basij militia hurl stones towards supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi who are inside Tehran University on Sunday, June 14, 2009. (AP Photo) # Backers of defeated Iranian...
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Members of the Basij militia wait outside Tehran's Mehrabad airport to welcome diplomats expelled from Britain December 3, 2011. All Iranian diplomats left Britain on Friday, expelled by the British government in response to protesters storming its... View Photo »
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The Basij falls under the command of the IRGC who answer to Khamenei. Basij members don't turn up in front of embassies, unless they have permission from the IRGC as well as operational procedures, which would certainly include whether to launch a physical attack or not.
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“Another benefit of the sanctions is [it will] reduce Iran’s imports, encouraging the people to turn to economical products and because 200 thousand new jobs will be created with every one billion dollar reduction in imports, the country will witness a...
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The Reality Show: The Menace of Islamic Fascist Republic of Iran: its ideology, its actions and threats
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Europe with missiles.
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In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 photo, two Iranian women sit at a bus stop in front of a mural depicting members of Basij paramilitary force during the war with Iraq in 1980-88, in Tehran, Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution 33 years ago, the walls and... View Photo »
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Approximately 200 demonstrators overran the city-centre compound of our embassy in Tehran. The majority of demonstrators were from a student Basij militia organisation. We should be clear from that this is an organisation controlled by elements of the Iranian regime.
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Mahdi, according to Shiite belief, will reappear at the time of Armageddon. Selected forces within the Revolutionary Guards and Basij reportedly have been trained under a task force called “Soldiers of Imam Mahdi” and they will bear the responsibility...
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The Economist was forced to fully retract and apologize “unreservedly” for attributing a number of false statements to Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the leading Islamist figures of post-authoritarian Tunisia. Among them, that he had “threatened to hang a...
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