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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Announcing new sanctions on an element of the hardliner-base of the Iranian regime on Tuesday, the Trump administration has leveled another blow against Iran’s revolutionary aggression. And this ...

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 ...

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 ...

A member of an Iranian pro-government paramilitary organisation Basij was stabbed to death in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Wednesday, two semi-official Iranian news agencies reported on ...

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei described the congregation of 110,000 Basijis as a manifestation of the fragrant garden of the Basij, saying, “Our great imam (Imam Khomeini) created this ...

On one hand, there are the ones who take the message to heart and become members of the student Basij. Then there are those like me, who rebel against this constant pressure of religion and state.