Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi has said that Voluntary Basij forces have played an important role during the 12-day Israeli imposed war against Iran.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday Iran's Basij militia forces have sacrificed their lives in what he called riots, the wave of protests sparked by the death in custody of a ...

Dating back to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has continued to push for paramilitary strength. With roughly 220,000 ...

Formed during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Basij became one of Iran's most zealous forces in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, often leading charges through minefields. The group, which is ...

A statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said Monday the commander of a Basij voluntary forces base in Zahedan in southeast Iran has been assassinated and martyred.

Iran's hardline judiciary has indicted 11 people over the killing of a Basij security force member during unrest, state media reported on Saturday, as authorities sought to quell nine weeks of ...

Abbas Javid Kargar, a member of Iran's Basij force accused of having shot dead Neda Agha Soltan at a peaceful protest in Tehran on June 20 of last year, claims he wasn't armed on that day and that ...

The Basij force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said in a statement posted by Iranian news outlets that several of its websites have come under cyberattack. The statement, which was issued on ...

After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality. While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the ...

About two weeks ago, I received a gruesome death threat from Hamid Reza Ahmadabadi, one of the more prominent figures of the Basij — Iran’s much-dreaded paramilitary arm. In his message, he ...

After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality. While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the ...