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...the virtual world is one of the priorities of Iran's pro-government Basij force and members are receiving necessary training in that area, according to an official with the militia. Abbas Mahmudian, an official in charge of media and public relations of Khorasan's...
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Rantburg
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2010-08-22&ID=303925
Roozhaeeii bad az hamleye basij be koye daneshgah! Ma bishomarim! Days after the basij attack on tehran university. We Are Countless!
TheBasij is a Islamic paramilitary volunteer militia. They have a local organization in almost every city in Iran. The Basij are most notable for their loyalty to Khamenei. The Basij have been fighting against the widespread protests which occurred following the 2009 Iranian presidential election and in the months following. The Basij have a record of involvement in many cases of human rights abuses e. .g. shooting into crowds, beating people, destroying private property and raiding universities. Se my other videos!
2009 Iranian Revolution - Close combat with Basij forces forcing them to run away Dec 27
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High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay noted that while the exact circumstances that led to at least seven people being killed and many others injured both during and after the Ashoura religious commemoration on Sunday are still unclear, "the
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New Kerala
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-21495.html
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One student recalled a "terrifying" scene that developed when members of the
Basij militia stormed Tehran University on June 14.
"I still can't believe what I saw," the woman, who asked that her name not be
used, told RFE/RL. One of Ahamdinejad's
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Payvand News of Iran
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/dec/1293.html
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Introduction: Since the fraudulent June 12th Presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), an increasingly emboldened opposition, the green movement, has arisen to demand the overthrow of the IRI. The green movement refuses to desist
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Canada Free Press
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18412
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My close friend Leyli, a 29-year-old photographer in Tehran, has been missing since protests rocked Iran on Sunday. What’s happened since she was
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The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-29/what-happened-to-leyli/
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A longtime correspondent on Iran, Robin Wright, who covered the 1979 Iranian Revolution, says the resiliency of Iran's opposition movement, despite a harsh crackdown, is motivated by broad-based desire for change in leadership and governance. Although
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Council on Foreign Relations
http://feeds.cfr.org/~r/publication/interview/~3/ECyEYlJnasA/understanding_irans_protest_movement.html
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IRIB is obviously very scared of the events of yesterday as the protests happened at its doorsteps.
IRIB shows a Basiji lying in the hospital bed saying he was stabbed from the back by Greens. IRIB is heavily playing propaganda and calling the
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/dec/28/iran-protests-twitter
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The
NIRU says it intends to secure Iranian radio and television stations,
the Parliament,and the courts, will hold local elections and
referendums within 3 months and new presidential elections within 9
months, will dissolve the murderous “Basij”
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Atlas Shrugs
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/day-188-iran-revolution-.html
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Live report of people protests in Iran on Ashura
13:25 way from Sa'di Cinema to Paramount, all chanting against Khamenei.
Government forces are shooting bullets in the air and firing tear gasses
to the masses of people, but people continue to
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UK Indymedia Newswire
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/12/443954.html
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According to
kaleme.org, over fifty members of Basij and plainclothes militia attacked the
prayer hall in Imam Khomeini's house in Tehran using chains, batons and pepper spray,
interrupting a speech by former president Mohammad Khatami.
According
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Payvand News of Iran
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"We advise this movement to end their activities," Fars quoted Iran's national police chief, Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, as saying. "Otherwise those who violate the order will be fiercely confronted, based on the law," he said.
Eyewitnesses
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=dec313a6b190982aeebc22387345cb0c
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as Iranians commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, Shiite Islam's holiest martyr, on the Ashura holiday this Sunday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The funeral of a prominent dissident cleric in the holy Iranian city of Qom turned into a vast and furious
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The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_14044488?source=rss
A former member of the Iranian security militia discloses he was ordered to tamper with the 2009 elections.
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Channel 4 News' interview with a fugitive of Iran's notorious Basij militia on Wednesday's programme has prompted an unprecedented wave of internet reaction.
"I've lost my world and I've lost my religion", a former Iranian Basij militia member told
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Channel 4
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/media/iranian+basij+militia+defector++twitter+storm/3469537?intcmp=rss_news_itnnews
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Planet Iran posted this shocking video produced by the BBC of a Basij member talking about the violence and murder by the regime after the Iranian election this year. He said the basiji were enforcing the will of Ayatollah Khamenei after the
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Gateway Pundit
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/basij-member-describes-abuse-violence-on-protesters-after-rigged-iranian-elections-video/
MUST SEE CONFESSION OF BASIJ Source: www.facebook.com Basij member describes election abuse A defecting member of the infamous Basij militia, the men who wounded and killed in the aftermath of the Iran elections in the summer, talks to Lindsey Hilsum about what he witnessed. www.channel4.com
MUST SEE CONFESSION OF BASIJ Source: www.facebook.com Basij member describes election abuse A defecting member of the infamous Basij militia, the men who wounded and killed in the aftermath of the Iran elections in the summer, talks to Lindsey Hilsum about what he witnessed. www.channel4.com
Basij member describes election abuse english version -------- افشاگري يك عضو بسيج
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Few Americans have followed Iran and the Iranian resistance more devotedly than Michael Ledeen. In books and articles he has explained the confrontation between Iran and the United States – and the coming crisis of the mullah regime. In his important
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New Majority
http://www.frumforum.com/irans-mullahs-exporting-terror-abroad-to-mask-weakness-at-home
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Armed with steel clubs, electric batons, pepper spray and tear gas, members of the Basij paramilitary organization attacked a group of several hundred students on the campus of the University of Tehran. Witnesses said the student protesters fought back,
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120801388.html?nav=rss_nation/special
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My colleague Robert Worth reports, “Iran’s broadest and most violent protest in months spilled over into a second day on Tuesday, as bloody clashes broke out on university campuses between students chanting antigovernment slogans and the police and
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The New York Times
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/video-of-protests-and-clashes-in-iran/
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It’s not a secret to readers of this site that I am not a fan of Barack Obama. I have not been since I learned he remained in the pews of the Reverend Wrights’ church for twenty years. But even more disturbing than that for me has been his Iran policy,
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Roger L. Simon
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/12/08/iran-demonstrations-escalate-obama-absent-as-usual/
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Iran's top prosecutor is threatening tougher action against protesters after tens of thousands marched at universities across the country in the biggest anti-government rallies in months. Prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi says that until now
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ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9277306
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TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces and paramilitary groups clashed with anti-government protesters yesterday, witnesses said, wielding batons, firing tear gas and stunning people with electrical batons to disperse crowds outside Tehran University.
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New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/persian_thugs_egPUK8hz8lbdyF5oJWOAZN
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Members of Iran's elite militia assigned to protect the regime, the Basiji, were out in force early in the day Monday to forestall the Student Day protests that had been planned weeks in advance. Hundreds of police and Basij forces surrounded and
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134858
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One of the more dramatic clips from today:
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What the conservative is about is balance.
I think this strategy is doomed.
Charles Johnson's manifesto prompts me to write my own.
Cheney's attack on Obama
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Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish
http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=60a445f11a823707ff83704f44514235
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Amnesty International condemned the excessive use of force by Iranian security forces that saw scores of protesters beaten and detained during student-led demonstrations on Monday.
In a number of instances, security forces - including the
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Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/iranian-security-forces-condemned-protest-crackdown-20091207
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In the winter of 1953, a few months after Mohammad Mossadeq, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran was removed from power by coup d'état, the Shah's security forces attacked University of Tehran, killing three students. Since then, December
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-dehghan/a-tribute-to-the-courageo_b_377048.html
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BEIRUT—As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. At the same time, authorities are intensifying enforcement of Islamic morals on
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=ebb1df76f2f9764e5cfe7bed75124e5c
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Prominent Iranian reformist cleric, Ayatollah
Hoseinali Montazeri criticized the role of Basij militia in the violent
suppression of the post-election protesters and maintained the Basij was not
established to serve "in the path of the Satan."
In the
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Payvand News of Iran
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1302.html
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The following editorial was published Nov. 26 in The New York Times:
Iran's fraudulently elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will clearly stop at nothing to stifle legitimate dissent and hold on to his illegitimate power. The most recent horror is
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AZ starnet.com
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/opinion/319212.php
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As Arash Hejazi sat in an Oxford coffee bar, members of Iran’s Basij militia
in Tehran were demanding his extradition outside the British Embassy.
The previous day the Iranian regime had sent an Oxford college a letter of
protest over a scholarship
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Times Online
http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/7195c6e/l/0L0Stimesonline0O0Ctol0Cnews0Cuk0Carticle69132730Bece0Tcid0FOTC0ERSS0Gattr0F7970A93/story01.htm
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A group of Iranian women staged a protest today in Tehran, in front of the
British embassy, calling for the extradition of an Iranian doctor, Arash Hejazi,
who tried to save Neda Agha Soltan’s life after she was shot during a June
protest in the
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Payvand News of Iran
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1128.html
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BRUSSELS — An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the power of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
Maryam Rajavi, head of the National
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1621894.html
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Mohammad Saleh Jokar told the semi-official Mehr news
agency that the move is aimed at expanding Basij activities in schools and
promoting Basij and revolutionary ideals among pupils who can be influenced at a
young age.
Jokar added that currently
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Payvand News of Iran
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source files www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.pangeaday.org news.discovery.com www.msnbc.msn.com حمله وحشیانه گارد ویژه با باتوم به یک دختر/13آبان Disgusting basij / state sponsored police thugs beating innocent people Iran 13 Aban November 4th 13 aban beating a girl young woman. ۱۳ آبان حمله وحشیانه گارد ویژه با باتوم به یک دختر/13آبان
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Amnesty International has condemned the excessive use of force by Iranian security forces that saw scores of peaceful protesters beaten and detained on Wednesday.
Security forces - including the paramilitary Basij militia - used batons and tear gas to
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Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/iranian-security-forces-condemned-after-clampdown-protesters-20091105
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In the interaction between a Basij and a young girl, you see everything you need about what tyranny is:
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To conflate Parsi with the dictators he exposed is just wrong.
Johnston seems far less artful
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Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish
http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=690953a984ff6530b90e4a9c7cbf7c3c
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By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL
As Iran held anti-U.S. rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the takeover
of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, security forces clashed in the capital with
opposition supporters who renewed their protest against the reelection
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Payvand News of Iran
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1041.html
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At the moment at 8:00: all roads heading towards embassy have been closed and Basij and Anti riot forces have been placed
هم اکنون ساعت 8:00 ، تمام خیابانهای منتهی به سفارت بسته شده و نیروهای ضد شورش انتظامی و بسیجی در محلها مستقر شدند
8:30:Basij and
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Yahoo! Buzztracker
http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/11/were-live-blogging-from-tehran-streets.html
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By Farnaz Fassihi Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, already an economic, political and military power, is quietly pushing into a new domain: the media.By March, the Revolutionary Guards plan to launch Atlas, a news agency modeled on services such
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125730352972127145.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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Istanbul, Turkey - Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday slammed President Barack Obama's reconciliation efforts
as insincere, as security forces and antigovernment protesters braced for a showdown Nov. 4 – the 30th
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Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1104/p06s01-wome.html
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