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787: IRAN TODAY – Part I – It’s not over yet – The Basij Militia – The Most Feared Men on the Streets of Iran
30 June, 2009

IRAN TODAY – Part I – It’s not over yet – The Basij Militia – The Most Feared Men on the Streets of Iran

Gleaned from: The Basij Militia Used Axes, Daggers, Sticks, Pepper-sprays, Electric-batons and Other Crude Weapons to Attack Street Protestors in Iran

AP via Fox-News Friday 19th June 2009

The pro-government Basij Militia held back during the week's street demonstrations, but witnesses said they unleashed their violence in shadowy night-time raids, attacking suspected opposition sympathizers with axes, daggers, sticks, pepper-sprays, electric-batons, and other crude weapons. They opened fire on a crowd of stone-throwing protesters. State media said seven were killed. That’s funny. One would expect the Israeli Army of doing a dastardly deed like that against the Palestinians, but Iranians doing it to Iranians!? It seems the Supreme Bleeder and his brutish-mulish-moron-monkey-mullahs, and Mad-moose Ahmak-dine-jackass are prepared use any means to crush anyone and anything that pose a threat to their hold on suppressive oppressive power…

Formed during the 1979 Islamic Revolting Revolution, the Basij became one of Iran's most zealous forces in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, often leading charges through minefields – with keys to paradise hung around their necks and crying for their Mamas…

The Basij, which is controlled by the Islamic Revolting Revolution Guards, was unleashed on dissidents in the 1990s, when teenagers and young men in plainclothes beat protesting students with batons. It is an intimidating tactics that opposition supporters said had been revived during the week's outpouring of anti-government protests.

An Iranian-born independent analyst said the Basij began as cannon fodder for the IRRG during the war with Iraq. Now, they are there to do the dirty work for them – breaking up parties, hassling women over their hijabs, and many more violent acts…

A senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy and a specialist in Iranian politics said the Basij have leaders based in mosques in every village and city throughout Iran, making it the widest security network in the country. The Iranian government says there are 5 million members in total, but active members number around 1 million. This simply means that their numbers are unknown, even to the rotten-regime

The IRRG, a military force that answers to Iran's Supreme Bleeder, are considered strong supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Basij were used to mobilize support for him in the 2005 election as well as during last week's vote.

In addition to their salaries, militia members – known as Basijis – get incentives such as easy entrance to universities and licences and loans for businesses. Now we know how the rest of Iran’s resources and the Iranian people’s life-blood are wasted…while hundreds of thousands of homeless jobless hopeless Iranians roam the streets of cities, towns, and villages in Iran…

The most senior members are issued guns. But the majority use axes, daggers, sticks, pepper-sprays, electric-batons and other crude weapons; and they ride motor-cycles into the crowds at high speeds and beat and slash at people…Basijis often shave off their beards and wear jeans to blend in with opposition supporters – infiltrating the crowd and then attacking them.

Amateur videos and photographs posted online in recent days showed what appeared to be attacks on people and properties in cities all over Iran carried out by young men in ordinary clothing. The images couldn’t be authenticated because of Iranian government restrictions on the media and telephone and Internet communications into and out of the country.

Khamenei's personal bodyguards, who protect him, his home, and his office, control Tehran's Basij force, and his stern warning of a crackdown if protests continued was an unambiguous threat to send the militiamen into the streets. Members of the Basij-Bastards and the Revolting Revolutionary Guards were on the streets of Tehran after midday prayers.

So far, the Basij have refrained from widespread attacks on demonstrators, but witnesses said the militiamen took part in a raid on Tehran University dormitories in which they used axes, sticks, and daggers to ransack student rooms and smash computers and furniture, wounding several students after students had hurled stones, bricks, and firebombs at police – one of the several violent episodes during the week's rallies.

According to state media, a day later, students attacked a compound used by the Basij and tried to set it on fire. Basij gunmen on the roof fired on them, killing seven students. Amateur videos that appeared to be from that clash showed men carrying away the wounded on streets spattered with blood – as fires burned in the distance and gunfire crackled.

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