Tag Archive | "Basij"
Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: Basij, Basij harass Faezeh Hashemi, Faezeh Hashemi, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Video
An interesting video has surfaced showing a crowd of what appears to be supporters of the regime, and quite likely plain-clothed Basijis harassing and intimidating, Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of the influentual cleric and former president of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Since the rigged presidential election last year, Rafsanjani has, at times, cautiously supported the Greens, and [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2010. Tags: Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Basij, BBC, Government Vigilantes, Iran Anti-riot Police, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Iran University Dorm Attacks, Khamenei, Police brutality, Tehran University
(Guardian, UK) | February 23, 2010
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Shocking film footage has emerged showing how riot police brutally suppressed protesting Tehran University students
Last night the BBC Persian service broadcast for the first time a very disturbing video of the attack by the Basij militia and riot police on Tehran University’s campus just two days after the [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: Basij, Government Sanctioned Violence, Iran Revolutionary Guards, Iran University Dorm Attacks, Iranian Universities, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, political unrest, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Tehran University, Video
About 9 months ago Iran fell into turmoil after the presidential elections were rigged in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of Iranians protested this in the streets, including many students from Iran’s universities.
Numerous reports came in during those heady days of attacks on Iranian University dorms by the dreaded regime goons including plainclothed Basij [...]
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Posted on 19 February 2010. Tags: Basij, CNN Video, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Torture
Watch this very interesting video from CNN, in which a former Basij member talks about his own experience after expressing reservations about the brutality used against protesters after the disputed election in June of last year. Fascinating.
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Posted on 11 January 2010. Tags: Basij, Basij attack Karoubi, Featured, Karoubi, Karoubi shot at, Video
This video purportedly shows the vehicle of Iranian opposition leader and cleric, Mehdi Karoubi, being attacked by Basijis in Qazvin on January 7. The video shows what looks like two people shooting at the vehicle, and appears to corroborate the claims made by Karoubi and his son. They had reported that the vehicle was fired [...]
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Posted on 29 December 2009. Tags: Ashura, Ashura Protests, Basij, Featured, Government Sanctioned Violence, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Sea of Green
Another video from the Ashura protests.
This one shows peaceful mourners and protesters being charged and attacked by regime anti-riot police:
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Posted on 28 December 2009. Tags: Arrests, Ashura, Basij, Featured, Government Sanctioned Violence, Iran Green Movement, Khamenei, Moharram
Ashura is over, and what a day it was. People turned out in at least the hundreds of thousands and faced down the regime. The regime started the day by trying to create a virtual martial law, security atmosphere. They occupied the major squares in Tehran and various cities throughout Iran. [...]
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Posted on 20 December 2009. Tags: Anti-government Protests, Ashura, Basij, Elm O Sanat University, Execution, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri's Funeral, Grand Ayatollah Sanei, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran Coup Government, Iran Protests, Iran Supreme Leader, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khamenei, Khatami, Moharram, Montazeri's Funeral, Mousavi, Sharif University, Zahra Rahnavard
NOTE: This is a live-blog article in which updates are being made in real-time as information comes in. To read this in chronological order, read from the bottom up.
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Posted on 11 December 2009. Tags: Basij, Featured, Government Sanctioned Violence, Iran Green Movement, Iran Military, Pasdaran, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Sepah
The website Gooya.com posted a letter purported to be from eight regiments of the Iranian army.
Enduring America writes:
The letter, signed by eight far-from-insignificant regiments, declares that they are loyal but cannot stand aside if the oppression and violation of the people continues. This oppression is a “betrayal”, and so the Army will defend the security [...]
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Posted on 06 December 2009. Tags: 16th of Azar, 2009 TIME Person of the Year, Action Potential, Basij, Chaos Theory, Cohesion, Communications, Conscious Reflection, Consciousness, Dictatorship, Election Protests, Facebook, Featured, Fractals, Government Censorship, Government Sanctioned Violence, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Iran Civil Rights Movement, Iran Green Movement, Iran Opposition, Iran Supreme Leader, Islam, Islamic Republic, Karoubi, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mainstream Media, Mousavi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Non-violent resistance, People Power, Power, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shah of Iran, Student's Day, Twitter, Tyranny, Web 2.0, Where is my vote?, YouTube
Sadness to me is the happiest time
When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind
Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth,
The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
Rumi
It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the people of Iran shattered the [...]
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