Whatever happens in the near future, Ali Khamenei’s legacy within and outside Iran is a house of cards. America would be wise ...
ground forces based across Iran’s 31 provinces and Tehran, which number more than 150,000 troops; the Basij paramilitary ... is still superseded by that of Khamenei, with whom the IRGC shares ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country's armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the ...
but Khamenei claimed victory and tried to give it a patriotic color. “What matters most,” he said, “is the emergence of the will of the Iranian nation and Iran’s military forces in an ...
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, as they hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian and Palestinian flags in an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has thanked the armed forces over the April 13 attack ... by sending drones and missiles a few days later, Iran has played down this retaliation, easing out ...
Iran has launched ... police. Ali Khamenei also administers the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), which is in charge of internal security, and its volunteer branch, the Basij Resistance ...
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards ... and provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces. It answers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC has an estimated 125,000-strong ...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was formed to defend the regime from internal dissent and balance the power of the formerly royalist armed forces ... Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
April 13 (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary ... a counterweight to the regular armed forces. It answers to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC has an estimated 125,000-strong ...