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“When darkness approaches, the pasdaran Revolutionary Guards leave the towns and we enter to get food from the villagers,” says Ahmed Nastani, a pesh merga commander.
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In Iran, beautifull and brave people from all over the country, have to fight, without weapons, against murderer call bassij, bassij-plain-cloths, pasdaran, anti riot police and others, because they have been betrayed by their own governement who call them now "terrorist" and "criminals"
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In Iran, beautifull and brave people from all over the country, have to fight, without weapons, against murderer call bassij, bassij-plain-cloths, pasdaran, anti riot police and others, because they have been betrayed by their own governement who call them now "terrorist" and "criminals"
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In February 2007 they killed 13 pasdaran (revolutionary guards), the parallel army that depend directly from Ahmadinejad and the ayatollah.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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"I base this judgment, among other things, on the fact that senior leaders of the pasdaran no longer have any compunction about taking positions that differ from those of the President or the Supreme Leader; yet neither the President nor the Supreme Leader ever dare disagree with the pasdaran."
BBC Blog Network 2009
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Like the "divine mobs" in South America, the "committees for the defense of the revolution" in Cuba, the pasdaran, etc., they will be used to smother dissent and intimidate opposition.
Latest Articles 2008
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Daily Beast website: "I am personally convinced that the Revolutionary Guard Corps is now rapidly becoming the dominant force in Iranian politics -- greater than President Ahmadinejad, and greater even than Ayatollah Khamenei himself, though the pasdaran [Revolutionary Guards] and others continue to pay lip service to his" leadership. "
BBC Blog Network 2009
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