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The basij are the smallest branch of Iran's military structure.
Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians And The Islamic State Joseph Ward III 2011
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The basij are the smallest branch of Iran's military structure.
Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians And The Islamic State Joseph Ward III 2011
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The basij are the smallest branch of Iran's military structure.
Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians And The Islamic State Joseph Ward III 2011
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It's a bit difficult to tell what's happening here but it seems that the basij are the smaller crowd on the right hand side, being confronted by the much larger crowd of demonstrators.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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The basij are the smallest branch of Iran's military structure.
Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians And The Islamic State Joseph Ward III 2011
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The basij are the smallest branch of Iran's military structure.
Joseph Ward III: A Living Hell: LGBT Iranians And The Islamic State Joseph Ward III 2011
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It's a bit difficult to tell what's happening here but it seems that the basij are the smaller crowd on the right hand side, being confronted by the much larger crowd of demonstrators.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a "basij" trainer; he used to teach the mentally handicapped, the 10-year-old Downs syndrome children, the heroin addicts, the young thieves etc. how to take the green plastic key to the gates of heaven he issued to them, and then walk into the field of fire of the elite Iraqi Republican Guard!
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Stripping the last vestige of democratic practice from presidential elections in and of itself did not ignite popular demonstrations in June 2009, but it is one spark -- like popular disgust with systemic corruption among the Khomeinist elites, an insistently stagnant economy and brutal behavior by pro-regime "basij" vigilantes.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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