Iran’s parliament voted on Tuesday to approve the use of the death penalty against demonstrators arrested during the country’s ongoing protest movement—sparked in September with the death of ...

On April 30, 1980, a bill to set up the National Basij Organization was approved in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the bill, Basij is tasked with countering any foreign military aggression ...

Thousands of fighters linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps paraded with heavy weapons and vehicles through the streets of Tehran on Friday showing their readiness to face "threats". "We ...

For many working-class Iranians, the Basij is simply a vehicle for social and economic mobility—an access ticket to a better life. The group is called the Basij. It is classified by both the U.S. and ...

The EU's decision to impose restrictive measures on senior Iranian commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the paramilitary Basij and the State Security Force has marked a new ...

The march was organized by Tehran's 27th Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces Mohammad Rasulullah Division with the participation of IRGC members, voluntary Basij forces and ordinary people ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Basij voluntary force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) staged a large-scale drill in the capital Tehran on Friday, the official news agency IRNA ...

Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force carry the Revolutionary Guard flags as the wear masks with portrait of the late leader of Palestinian Hamas Yahya Sinwar during a parade ...

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Thousands of people protested in Tehran on Friday against the Israeli attacks on Gaza and in solidarity with the Lebanese ...

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Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force march during the force parade as they cover their faces with a Palestinian ...