Definitions
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- noun A volunteer
paramilitary group inIran
Etymologies
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Such major anti-Western rallies are rarely allowed to occur without official approval and often include state-backed forces including a paramilitary group known as the Basij, which is part of the vast security network controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.
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Such major anti-Western rallies are rarely allowed to occur without official approval and often include state-backed forces including a paramilitary group known as the Basij, which is part of the vast security network controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.
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Such major anti-Western rallies are rarely allowed to occur without official approval and often include state-backed forces including a paramilitary group known as the Basij, which is part of the vast security network controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The word Basij means roughly mass mobilization in Persian, and the original organization consisted of all the civilian volunteers whom the Ayatollah Khomeini urged to go fight on the front in the Iran-Iraq war.
PrairiePundit 2009
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And it is kinda Orwellian that the word Basij translates to “mobilization of the oppressed” when they’re the ones doing the oppressing.
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The savage repression being committed by the joint Syrian-Iran strike forces is being directed by leadership elements of Iran's so-called volunteer marauders squad known as the Basij those civilian clad thugs who roamed the streets of Tehran beating Iranians senseless and kidnapping protesters.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Iran's Proxy War in Syria Is Shoring Up Assad Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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The savage repression being committed by the joint Syrian-Iran strike forces is being directed by leadership elements of Iran's so-called volunteer marauders squad known as the Basij those civilian clad thugs who roamed the streets of Tehran beating Iranians senseless and kidnapping protesters.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Iran's Proxy War in Syria Is Shoring Up Assad Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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The club-wielding militias known as Basij had inflicted much of it on the marchers, women as well as men.
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The limited information available suggests that the regime has extensively employed an untrained quasi-militia group known as the Basij to target unarmed civilians.
Christopher Santora: Why The ICC Should Speak Out on Iran 2009
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The Basij are a legal group, officially a student union, and are legally under direct orders of the Revolutionary Guard.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Jeez, if you’re gonna steal an election try not to be so obvious about it. 2009
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