Basij
Heavy security on call for Iranian election
The Tehran Governor said on Wednesday March 13 that 99 Basij battalions and 15,000 police officers are prepared to keep the peace during the presidential election in June.
MP calls for accountability in fatal field trip
The death of 26 students on a field trip to southern Iran has drawn fire from the media and the Iranian Parliament, with an MP calling for the Basij chief to be accountable for the accident.
Special forces end mock policing exercises
In the final stage of a drill by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Basij forces ran a mock confrontation with rebels in the streets of Tehran in a preparation drill to deal with so-called “city disturbances.”
Head of Basij condemns Iranian reformists
Mohammadreza Naghdi, head of Iran’s Basij militia says the Iranian reformists are more “adversarial” than the “terrorists of the eighties” in Iran.
Iran's Basij chief offers peacekeepers for Britain
Commander Naghdi, the head of Iran's Basij militia, described the recent riots in Britain as "an uprising for justice" and announced that his Ashura Battalions are prepared for deployment to Britain as peacekeepers.
Two Iranians killed in Monday's protests
Iran announced that one of the people injured in Monday's protests has died bringing the number of people killed in the Febraury 14 protests to two.
Basij chief says Iran threatened by sedition
Head of Iran’s Basij militia warned that he believes “more complex seditious activities” are on the way against the Islamic Republic.He added: “To reach their aims, they even organized the sedition of 2009 and fed 80 satellites with Persian language programs and used the collaboration of well-known figures to deceive the nation, but they failed.”








