In Tehran, Terror in Plain Clothes

Known collectively as Basijis, the brigades consist of officially recognized groups like Ansar Hezbollah, whose members undergo formal training, to smaller groups controlled by local clerics.
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Known collectively as Basij, the brigades consist of officially recognized groups like Ansar Hezbollah, whose members undergo formal training, to smaller groups controlled by local clerics. The word Basij in Persian roughly translates as mass mobilization.

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