Pasdaran

As Baer reminds us, "Sepah-i Pasdaran is shorthand for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the spearhead of the Islamic revolution that Ayatollah Khomeini wanted to spread across the Middle East."

Review: Blow The House Down 2006

The Shah, Khomeini and now the modern Khamenei/Khatami/Ahmadinejad lineups have all bowed to the pressure of these gunment called the Pasdaran and Basiji.

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009

This was a signal that the student movement wanted the world to realize that the ayatollahs and their Pasdaran were a Khomeinist form of the Salafi Taliban.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Even among the Persian ethnic majority, students, women, artists, workers, and other sectors are clashing with the regime, whose central force—known as the Pasdaran—is the most powerful and wealthy Islamist militia in the world; it is the primary tool of Tehran’s ruling elite in maintaining power.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Paranoia and hardening or attitudes allowed Pasdaran and Basiji scum to scale the heights of power and control large swathes of the land as if it was their right to.

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009

There are loads of Pasdaran and Basiji going for election this year.

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009

Because the Pasdaran and Basiji have the final say, not Khamenei, not Ahmadinejad and definitely not even that corrupt survivor of Iranian politics Rafsanjani.

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009

As in the past, Tehran appears to have drafted Iranians living in the destination country, using as leverage their family connections or friendships forged during the Iran-Iraq war, the early years of the Islamic Revolution or service in the Pasdaran.

When Tehran Attacks Emanuele Ottolenghi 2011

So far, any of the constituant states in Iran has not gone on an ethnic cleansing binge like the others mentioned but if the Pasdaran get into official power and have the deal made with the West that will change!

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009

This is where the Pasdaran and Basiji thugs came in and they won the war for Iran and became heroes with many people.

Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009